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THE STORY OF THE DEER. 
THE MUSK DEER. 
In the Himalaya Mountains is found the musk deer, a clumsily built animal 
standing about 20 inches at the shoulder, with peculiarly coarse, brittle, and 
rather long hair, somewhat resembling path. This deer has no antlers. All 
the limbs are of considerable length, and the hinder pair are longer than the 
front ones. The ears are very large and the tail is short, terminating in the 
male in a tuft, but hairy throughout in the female. The male has a peculiar 
sac-like gland in the skin of the abdomen, which yields the musk of commerce. 
The general color of the fur is a rich dark brown, more or less speckled and 
mottled with gray and tawny; the individual hairs having black tips, beneath 
which is a ring of white, while for three-quarters of their length they are 
white at the base. The chin, the inner borders of the ears and the inside of 
the thighs, and not unfrequentlv a spot on each side of the throat, are whitish, 
while the under-parts and the inner surfaces of the limbs are paler than the 
body. Some individuals are, however, considerably paler than ordinary, while 
in others there is a more or less marked yellowish tint; and others, again, are 
blacker. The young are spotted. 
The musk-deer utter a kind of hiss when alarmed, and when captured they 
give vent to a series of screams; with these exceptions they appear to be 
silent, even in the pairing-season. 
THE PAMPAS DEER. 
The American deer differ entirely from those o*f Asia and Europe in the 
character of their antlers, which are either in the form of simple spikes, like 
the little red brocket of South America, or divided in a fork-like manner, like 
the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevadas. 
The most important group in South America is the Pampas deer, which 
stands about two* and one-half feet at the shoulder. Its range extends from 
Paraguay and Uruguay through Argentina into* Northern Patagoaiia. The 
hair is thick, coarse and glossy; its color on the upper parts being light reddish 
brown. The lower parts of the flanks, as well as the chin, throat, chest and 
a stripe on the limbs, are dusky; while the under parts, inner sides of the 
limbs, under side and tip of the tail, and insides of the ears are white. 
If a person crawling close along the ground slowly advances towards a 
herd the deer frequently, out o*f curiosity, approach to reconnoitre him. 
The male of the Pampas deer possesses an unpleasant and penetrating efflu- 
