. Animals in action; studies and stories of beasts, birds and reptiles; their habits, their homes and their peculiarities . The Monarchs of the WAPITI DEER ON A ROCKY MOUNTAIN RANGE. 317 the braying of an ass, beginning with a loud, shrill note andending in a guttural sob. In May or June the female givesbirth to a fawn, — sometimes, in rare cases, to two. In the rangesof the Rocky Mountains, where the wapitis are comparativelyunmolested, these noble deer wander about in large a herd is pictured in our illustration. Amidst the virginsolitudes, covered with an unbroken mantle
. Animals in action; studies and stories of beasts, birds and reptiles; their habits, their homes and their peculiarities . The Monarchs of the WAPITI DEER ON A ROCKY MOUNTAIN RANGE. 317 the braying of an ass, beginning with a loud, shrill note andending in a guttural sob. In May or June the female givesbirth to a fawn, — sometimes, in rare cases, to two. In the rangesof the Rocky Mountains, where the wapitis are comparativelyunmolested, these noble deer wander about in large a herd is pictured in our illustration. Amidst the virginsolitudes, covered with an unbroken mantle of snow, the wapitirange at their leisure, picking out the scant vegetation beneaththe snow. ANIMALS IN ACTION. A Duel in an Indian Jungle. THE Indian buffalo is an ancestor and distant cousin ofthe huge, lumbering black animals, with horns curlingdown low upon the back, which the traveller meetsthrough the valley of the Danube, in Italy, along the waterwaysof Egypt, and in India. The Indian buffalo is a ferocious andpowerful animal, and reaches an average length of nine feetand six inches. He shares with the elephant the honor of beingthe mos
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