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WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WA YS chap, xxv 
exhibit his real character, instead of dying like a 
sheep, killed by a rifle bullet from an ambuscade. 
Taking this animal as a representative of the 
species, although the antlers have few points, the 
sambur stag must be accepted as one of the finest 
specimens of the genus Cervus in the world. 
