The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . eptember or October, and the fawns make their appearance in thefollowing May or June. Hog-deer are somewhat ugly movers, running with the head carriedunusually low. They are frequently put up when pig-sticking on grassplains, and afford a good run. In Dera Dun and the sub-HimalayanTerai these deer are generally shot from elephants while beating largetracts of grass when larger game is not on the move. The does lie soclose as almost to be kicked up by the feet of the elephants ; but thebucks are more alert, and get up sooner, so that the best
The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . eptember or October, and the fawns make their appearance in thefollowing May or June. Hog-deer are somewhat ugly movers, running with the head carriedunusually low. They are frequently put up when pig-sticking on grassplains, and afford a good run. In Dera Dun and the sub-HimalayanTerai these deer are generally shot from elephants while beating largetracts of grass when larger game is not on the move. The does lie soclose as almost to be kicked up by the feet of the elephants ; but thebucks are more alert, and get up sooner, so that the best chance ofshooting them is to ride on one flank somewhat in advance of the line ofbeating elephants, or to take up a position on foot in a place to whichthe deer are likely to bolt. To the novice shooting such comparativelysmall and quickly moving animals from elephant-back will be found byno means an easy matter. A buck now living at Woburn Abbey apparently indicates the existenceof an undescribed representative of the hog-deer in the Fig. 43.—Swamp-Deer Stag, with the antlers in velvet. From aphotograph by the Duchess of Bedford. The Chital Z2i THE CHITAL, OR INDIAN SPOTTED DEER [Cejvus axis) Native Names.—Chita/, C/iitra, and Jhank, Hindustani ; Chatidah inBhagalpur ; Boro Khotiya, Bengali ; Bi/riyah in Gorakhpur ;Lupi AND Kars of the Gonds ; Darkar of the Korku ; PustaOF the Ho-Kol ; San/ng, Saraya, Jati, and Mikka, Canarese ;Di/pi, Telegu ; Pali-man, Tamil and Malabari ; Tic Muha,Cingalese (Plate VI. Fig. 6) The sambar and the chital in India and the greater and lesser kudu inSomaliland offer a curious analogy in their respective habits, the sambarand the greater kudu inhabiting hill-forests, while the chital and thelesser kudu frequent for most part the lowlands, although the chitalsometimes betakes itself to hilly ground. Both species of kudu are foundin dense and often almost impenetrable thorn-jungle, and we accordinglyfind them furnished with enormous
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