The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . ientific title. For ordinary purposes it seems, however, farpreferable to adopt the Hindustani name chital, of which Indian spotteddeer is a somewhat expanded translation. With the exception of a darker-coloured species from one of theislands of the Philippini group, the chital is the only one of the rusinedeer which is spotted with white at all seasons of the year. Indeed it is, The Chital 223 with the above-named exception, the only deer that is as fully spotted inwinter as in summer, fallow deer losing all their spots in the formerseason,
The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . ientific title. For ordinary purposes it seems, however, farpreferable to adopt the Hindustani name chital, of which Indian spotteddeer is a somewhat expanded translation. With the exception of a darker-coloured species from one of theislands of the Philippini group, the chital is the only one of the rusinedeer which is spotted with white at all seasons of the year. Indeed it is, The Chital 223 with the above-named exception, the only deer that is as fully spotted inwinter as in summer, fallow deer losing all their spots in the formerseason, when they also tend to more or less completely disappear in theJapanese deer and its larger relatives. In size the chital may be described as medium, its height at thewithers usually ranging between 36 and 38 inches. It has a rather longand pointed head, elongated limbs, and a generally light and gracefullybuilt frame. There seems no marked seasonal difference in the colour ofthe coat, of which the general hue is light rufous fawn, marked all over. Fig. 45.—Chital Hind at Woburn Abbey. Photographed by the Duchess of Bedford. the body with rather large and rounded spots, which tend to arrangethemselves in longitudinal lines along the back and immediately abovethe white of the under surface of the body. A well-defined dark striperuns from the nape of the neck to the tip of the tail, on either side ofwhich the spots form at least one well-marked line. The chin, the upperpart of the throat, the inner surface of the ears, the under parts of thebody, the inner surface of the limbs, and the lower side of the tail, are ofthe same pure white as the spots. The head, which is darker on theface than elsewhere, is uniformly brown, and acquires a characteristicexpression by the very general presence in the bucks of a blackish bandacross the muzzle just above the naked area. The antlers, which are 2 24 Great and Small Game of India, etc. supported on short pedicles, are long, slender, and m
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