SAMBAR and SWAMP DEER, or BARASINGHA 
(Cervus unicolor and Cerrtes dnvauccli) 
The Sambar is the largest of Indian Deer. It is more widely and 
generally distributed than any other species of deer of the region. 
The Swamp Deer is confined to the Indian Mainland up to the base 
of the Himalayas. It is restricted to the vicinity of water, where because 
ol the pocr footing it is usually hunted from elephant back. The group 
represents a scene in a marshy tract in the Tarai, along the foothills 
of the Himalayas. 
The Sambar were collected through the courtesy of the late Newab Sultan Jahan, 
Begum of Bhopal, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., CI., G.B.E. For the Swamp Deer the Museum 
is indebted to th? Mahirani Surat Kunwar, O.B.E., of Karigarh, Oudh. 
Sambar by James L. Clark; Swamp Deer by J. W. Hope 
Background by C. C. Rosen kranz 
