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on its bended knees. It is found also in Java, where the species is named by 
naturalists, tragulus javanicus . It is somewhat less than a foot and a half in 
length, and the prevailing color of yellow is varied by gray on the throat and 
brown on the tail, except the under part and the tip, which are white. Three 
white collars surround its neck, its sides are tinged with red, and the color of 
its upper parts 
is shaded with 
black. 
The Su¬ 
matran Kan- 
chil (Tragulus 
| napii) is larger 
and more ex¬ 
travagant in the 
matter of neck¬ 
ties, wearing 
five of them. 
The Cey¬ 
lon Kanchil 
(Tragulus me- 
minna) is inter¬ 
mediate in size, 
but is banded 
and spotted 
thro ugh out. 
The animal is 
solitary in its 
mode of life. 
The kanchil , 
first named 
tragulus kan- 
chil , is supreme 
in smallness of 
size, as well as 
superior in 
quickness of 
action and in 
intelligence. It 
is said when 
pursued by 
its enemies to 
j nmp up and 
fasten itself to the branch of a tree, where it will remain feigning death. 
The Water Deer (.Hyoemoschus aquaticus) is the mammoth of this family. 
It is found in Sierra Leone, and wears a brown coat, relieved on the throat by 
five up and down stripes and on the flanks by bands and spots of white. 
The Muntjac (Cervutus muntjac ) has its habitat in India and the neighbor¬ 
ing islands. 
The Weeping Muntjac (Cervulus lachrymans) belongs to northern China. 
WOI.VRS ATTACKING A CARIBOU. 
