. The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet,' . mplefork. Although the coat of the adult may be eitheruniformly coloured or spotted at all times of the year,it never has the large light-coloured rump-patch ofthe red-deer group, nor does it exhibit that markeddifference in colour according to season which is sostriking in most members of that group. Severalspecies (like the sambar) have the throat and neckmore or less heavily maned ; and in most cases theears are large and the tail comparatively l
. The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet,' . mplefork. Although the coat of the adult may be eitheruniformly coloured or spotted at all times of the year,it never has the large light-coloured rump-patch ofthe red-deer group, nor does it exhibit that markeddifference in colour according to season which is sostriking in most members of that group. Severalspecies (like the sambar) have the throat and neckmore or less heavily maned ; and in most cases theears are large and the tail comparatively long. The Indian sambar (the typical representative of awidely spread species with many local races, whose fulltitle is Cervus imicolor typicus) is a large and somewhatheavily built deer, attaining a height of at least 5 feet4 inches at the withers, and characterised by its longand almost uniformly dark-coloured coat, heavily manedthroat and neck, large spreading ears, evertible face-glands, and thick bushy tail. The long and massiveantlers have a peculiarly rugged exterior, and the twotines of the terminal fork are usually approximately 224. n Fig. 37.—Head of the Indian Game Animals of India, etc. equal in length, and when unequal, it is generally thefront one which is the shorter of the two, while thehind one springs from the posterior aspect of the beam,and does not form the direct continuation ot the axis ofthe latter. The space enclosed between the antlers isgenerally U or V shaped, and the bony pedicles onwhich they are supported are relatively short. Incolour the sambar is usually almost uniform darkumber-brown, but there is a considerable amount ofindividual variation ; some specimens, especially hinds(which are paler than stags), tending more or lessdecidedly to greyish or yellowish. Old stags maybecome almost black ; and in lighter-coloured malesthe face, mane, and the upper surface of the tail areblack or blackish. On the under surface of the bodythe hai
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