. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. XATURAL feet in lieiglit. Its colour is a ricli jiglit yellow. As its name signifies it delights in moist situations, where it congregates in herds of great numbers. • Its antlers are large, and of the intermediate rucervine type. The brow-tynes reach a foot in length, and ai'e directed forwards with an upward tui-n at their tips. The beam is long, and branches into an anterior, massive, and branched continu- ation of itself, as well as a posterior smaller bifurcate tyne. In Siam this species is replaced by the closely-allied Sch
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. XATURAL feet in lieiglit. Its colour is a ricli jiglit yellow. As its name signifies it delights in moist situations, where it congregates in herds of great numbers. • Its antlers are large, and of the intermediate rucervine type. The brow-tynes reach a foot in length, and ai'e directed forwards with an upward tui-n at their tips. The beam is long, and branches into an anterior, massive, and branched continu- ation of itself, as well as a posterior smaller bifurcate tyne. In Siam this species is replaced by the closely-allied Schomburgk's Deer, a little-known species, in which the antlers are extremely elegant, the long brow-tyne being followed by a shoit beam which bifurcates into two equal branches, these again, each of them, bifurcating in a similar manner. Eld's Deer, or the Thamyx.* This Deer, which differs from the Swamp Deer only in its antlers, was discovered by Captain Eld, in 1838. It abounds in the swamp lands of Burmah, and extends as far east as the Island of Hainan. Its form is slimmer than that of the Red Deer, at the same time that it is somewhat smaller, attaining a height of over four feet. During the summer months its body-colour is a light rufous brown, with a few faint indications of white spots. Its under parts are nearly white, as are the insides of the hairy eai-s. Its tail is short, and black above. In winter its lengthy hail- takes on a darker tint. Lieutenant R. C. Beavan has given an excellent account of the habits of Eld's Deer, from which we learn that their food must consist almost entirely of grass and paddy, which gi-ow both cultivated and wild, in the swamps in which they dwell. " In habits they are very wary and difficult of approach, especially the males. They are also very timid, and easily startled; the males, however, when wounded and brought to bay with Dogs, get very savage and charge vigorously. On being disturbed they invariably make for the open, inste
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