. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. THE DEER TRIBE 253 troops of from four to a dozen, or singly, while during the rutting-reason the animals rove in more considerable herds. In jungle and thickly forested regions it, is a hard matter to come up with the_ sambar on foot,- and it is there usually shot from elephant- back, by the aid of beaters. In more open hill country it affords good stalking. In Ceylon it is hunted with hounds, and yields in this way also capital sport. These animals seem to revel in heat, and love to shelter themselves in hot, stifling valleys; they drink, only once in two
. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. THE DEER TRIBE 253 troops of from four to a dozen, or singly, while during the rutting-reason the animals rove in more considerable herds. In jungle and thickly forested regions it, is a hard matter to come up with the_ sambar on foot,- and it is there usually shot from elephant- back, by the aid of beaters. In more open hill country it affords good stalking. In Ceylon it is hunted with hounds, and yields in this way also capital sport. These animals seem to revel in heat, and love to shelter themselves in hot, stifling valleys; they drink, only once in two or three days. It is a noticeable feature in connection with the antlers of the sambar that they are not invariably shed annually, as with most of the deer kind. In Ceylon, accord- ing to Sir Samuel Baker, they are shed '• with great irregularity every third or fourth ; Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Heber Percy thus writes concerning the sambar, or sambur : " Compared with the Kashmir stag, red deer, or wapiti, he looks like an ugly. "m. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cornish, C. J. (Charles John), 1858-1906. New York, The University Library
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