Records of big game : with the distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements of the different species / [Rowland Ward].

Rowland Ward

Date:: 1903

Credit: Records of big game : with the distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements of the different species / [Rowland Ward]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Head of Male IIog-I)eer. HOG-DEER or PARA (Cervus porcinus). Allied to the Bavian deer, but the antlers larger, the build longer and lower, and the summer coat of the adult, as well as that of the young, spotted with yellowish white. General colour in winter rufous or yellowish brown, somewhat speckled above, and much darker beneath ; in summer, upper-parts paler and more or less spotted. Antlers on long pedicles, with the hinder tine of the terminal fork the shorter. Height at shoulder from about 25 to 29 inches. Weight about 90 to 100 lbs. The largest pair of antlers known belonged to a specimen shot by Mr. A. O. Hume in the Ganges Khadir, near Meerut. They measured 20 along the beam inside, and had a mid-beam girth of 3.5. The specimen was destroyed in the Mutiny, the house in which it was hung having been burnt. Distribution.—India, throughout the Indo-Gangetic plain from Sind and the Punjab to Assam, thence through Sylhet to Burma and Tenasserim. Length on Circum- outside ference above Tip to Tip. Locality. curve. brow-tine. ~23i 3i 12I Burma -21i 3* 7k Do. -2ii 3t 22\ Owner. Capt. G. H. Evans. Do. Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart.$