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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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s. In the female the canines areshorter, but she can also inflict a nasty bite. When feeding, the muntjac has a jaunty gait, liftingeach foot high at every step, and bringing it down asif he were treading on eggs. In all respects he is abeautiful little animal. The call of the muntjac is surprisingly loud for ananimal of his small size. It is a short roar, and some-times this barking is maintained for a long time.Frequently, when I have disturbed a muntjac, he hasrushed away with a short bark of alarm, and aftergoing a little distance has kept up a series of loudbarks for a quarter of an hour. On none of theseoccasions do I think the muntjac was aware of myidentity ; and in my view no deer barks at a man.His call at sight or smell of a tiger is different from hisordinary roar, consisting of a number of very sharpbarks in rapid succession. The period of gestation is about six months, and asmost fawns are dropped in April and May, the ruttingseason must be in November or December. But I
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The Mouse Deer Drjiwn by J. i^lac/a7-lnne THE MOUSE DEER 393 have seen does with young fawns at foot all throughthe year; and as I have several times noticed twofawns of apparently equal age running with the mother,two young at a birth cannot be uncommon. Both on the Nilgiris and in Wynaad the muntjac isvery common. On the higher plateau he is usuallybagged with a charge of shot by sportsmen beating forsmall game/ But the proper way to shoot him is bystalking. Owing to his wariness it calls for the displayof considerable skill to get within shooting distance,while he offers such a small mark that to bag him witha bullet needs good shooting. In Wynaad he feeds atall hours of the day at the edge of some cover intowhich he can retreat instanter, and stalking him hasoften afforded me very pretty sport. The feat ofwhich I am proudest, was a right and left at a pair ofmuntjac with my Express, as they raced across ahillside when I had crept up to seventy yards. THE MOUSE DEER This little ani

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