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never runs straight, and it generally comes back to the 
place from which it was first started by the dog. When 
running, it will stop and listen, and if it finds that the 
dog is not coming in its direction, will stand and let the 
dog go by. If the dog is used to this kind of game and 
keeps on the track, the acoorie will eventually run into 
a fallen hollow log, from which it must be cut out with 
an axe. Sometimes though rarely, the acoorie takes to 
the water, when, as it cannot dive like the labba, it is 
easily caught and killed. 
Three kinds of deer are known to the writer ; the 
waiking (Cervus savannarum), the beyou (C. rufus) 
and the wirribisceri (C humilis). The waiking is the 
largest, and frequents the savannahs and open lands of 
the interior ; the buck has horns similar to, but smaller 
than, those of the red deer. It is difficult to hunt these 
deer with dogs, as the latter rarely have sufficient en- 
durance to run the game down, and there are seldom 
rivers of sufficient size, in the immediate neighbourhood 
these deer frequent, into which they can be driven by 
the dogs and so caught while swimming. They are 
generally shot by creeping up to them through high 
grass or from the clumps of trees standing on savannahs. 
The skins of this kind of deer are sometimes used by 
Indians on the savannahs as screens for their doors or 
windows. 
The beyou and the wirribisceri are both forest deer, 
and are plentiful all over the country. Sometimes, 
though, very rarely, they are caught in the bush by 
dogs. As a rule, they are killed, after having been driven 
into the river by dogs, by certain of the hunters 
waiting for the purpose in a canoe. Of the two 
