BURMA 
B URMA is a delightful country to travel in, and there is a fair 
quantity of game for the hunter; but the forests are so dense and 
so vast in extent that to achieve success not only a good deal of 
hard work is required, but a certain amount of luck as well. 
There are, in fact, many men who have lived there for years who 
have never set eyes on a tiger, though these carnivora are by no 
means rare. Besides the natural difficulties of the country, the casual 
disposition of the natives and their aversion to anything in the nature of 
hard work, renders any attempt to make a regular and well -organized 
beat by no means easy. However, there are two beasts well worth hunting 
which are not found in India, and only exist in Burma and beyond; these 
are the tsaine and the brow-antlered deer, and both of these are better 
pursued with a small retinue and an absence of beaters. Schomburgk’s 
deer, which is allied to the swamp deer of India, only exists in Northern 
Siam, and is not found in Burma. 
THE TSAINE 
(BOS SONDAICUS) 
T HIS fine bovine is found in Burma and extends to Malaysia, 
where it is sometimes called the bantin. The tsaine differs 
from the Indian bison in several respects. The dorsal ridge is 
not so pronounced, and the horns are rounder. Very remarkable 
is the plate of hard horny skin, between the bases of the horns, 
where the Indian bison has a thick growth of hair. The old 
bulls are dark in colour, with a white rump patch. The habits of the animal 
are much the same as those of the bison, but they are not so fond of hill 
climbing. They may be found on the plains, when the young grass is sprout- 
ing after a forest fire, and can then be tracked up and shot in the same 
manner as bison. Unfortunately they are not numerous anywhere. 
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