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care to lift their right or left feet simultaneously. If any 
of the herd leave off feeding to gaze upon this extraordi- 
nary phenomenon, it instantly stops, and the head begins 
to play its part, by licking its shoulders, and performing 
other necessary movements. In this way the hunters at- 
tain the very centre of the herd without exciting suspicion, 
and have leisure to single out the fattest. The hindmost 
man then pushes forward his comrade's gun, the head is 
dropped, and they both fire nearly at the same instant. 
The Deer scamper off, the hunters trot after them ; in a 
short time the poor animals halt, to ascertain the cause of 
their terror; their foes stop at the same moment, and hav- 
ing loaded as they ran, greet the gazers with a second fatal 
discharge. The consternation of the Deer increases ; they 
run to and fro in the utmost confusion ; and sometimes a 
great part of the herd is destroyed within the space of a 
few hundred yards." 
THE AXIS, 
A very beautiful species of the deer found in Africa and 
the East Indies, of a light red colour, though some of the 
kind are of a deeper red. He is about the size of a fallow 
deer, and otten variegated with beautiful spots of bright 
white. The horns are slender and triple forked. The 
Axis is a native of Ceylon and Borneo, a timid and harm- 
less creature, more ornamental to the landscape, where it 
skips and plays in a wild state, than useful to man. 
