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Title: Sport on the Nilgiris and in Wynaad
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fletcher, F. W. F
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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d to a basinful THE SAMBUR 379 each per day for our ablutions ? What did itmatter that our kitchen was merely a circle of stonesset under a tree, when our boy had produced adaintily cooked three course dinner every day underthese primitive conditions, with that wonderful facultyfor evolving a square meal at all times and in allplaces which seems the special gift of the nativeservant ? We had come for sport, and had seen atiger and at least fifteen stags, and had bagged threegood ones. Our trophies, beautifully set up byRowland Ward, now adorn the staircase of R.s flat inKensington, and often, I hope, serve to remind her ofour trip to Rockwood Peak. THE SPOTTED DEER Scientific name.—Cervus axis.Tamil na.me.—I^ti/i man.Kanarese name.—Sarga.Kurumba name.—Sarga.Nayaka name.—Sarga. THE MUNTJAC Scientific name.—Cervtdus muntjac.Tamil name.—Kaf ddu.Kanarese name.—Kard kuri.Kurumba name.—Kard kuri.Nayaka name.—Kard kuri. THE MOUSE DEER Scientific name.—Tragulus memin?ia.
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THE SPOTTED DEER Where the bamboo rears its graceful spires,Where the tree ferns cluster in every dell,Where the peacock spreads his lambent fires,It is there the dappled deer loves to dwell. Wynaad Idylls. If the sambur, by reason of his size and majesticappearance, is the king of Indian Cervidae, the axis, invirtue of his exquisite grace and symmetry, is theAdonis of the deer tribe. In beauty of form andcolouring his only rival amongst Indian game animalsis the black buck (Antilope cervicaprd). The groundcolour of his glossy coat, a rufous fawn, is somewhatvariable, the shade being lighter in some specimensthan in others. The throat, under part of the body,inside of limbs, and under surface of tail, are white. Adorsal stripe, considerably darker than the groundcolour, runs from the nape of the neck to the end ofthe tail. The sides are covered with large roundedwhite spots, irregularly placed in some specimens, inothers showing a tendency to arrange themselves inlines below the dorsa

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