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Period of gestation .—Eight months. 
Description .—Size moderate ; no mane ; long pointed tail; horns normally 
with three tines, a brow antler and two upper tines, of which the outer is always 
the longer. In colour rufous fawn, spotted throughout with white, a dark 
stripe down the back, bordered by a row of white spots, chin, thioat, belly in¬ 
side of limbs and underneath tail white. Face dark brown ; head brownish and 
unspotted. 
It haunts bushes, trees and bamboo jungle on hilly ground and alluvial 
plains and never ranges far from water. It is gregarious at all times of the 
Year, feeds morning and evening as a rule, drinks between 8 and 10 a.m., grazes 
and browses, swims well. Fawns are born almost throughout the jeai, and 
there is the greatest irregularity in the shedding of the horns, though they are 
mostly shed between October and March. 
Measurements .—Average height at shoulder, 32 inches; average bom 
measurement, 30 inches ; circumference of beam, o% inches, length, 4 eet 
6 inches; weight, from 200 to 250 lbs. 
Record Heads .—The largest heads of which I have any particulars are two of 
39 inches, one shot by Captain F. Pope of the Northamptonshire Regt. near 
Jubbulpore in January 1907, and the other by Major M . Radcliffe. T wo ® 
of over 38 inches are also recorded below. Blanford measured one oi + 
