The mutilated body of a beautiful marsh-deer was lying on the moist ground, pieces of fur and flesh were scattered around, and the blood had even spurted on the surrounding leaves and branches. ❋ Algot Lange (N/A)
Jerome had succeeded in bringing down with his muzzle-loader a _mutum_, a bird which in flavour and appearance reminds one of a turkey, while I was so lucky as to bag a nice fat deer (marsh-deer). ❋ Algot Lange (N/A)
In one meadow by a pond we saw three marsh-deer, a buck and two does. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Indeed, it seems hard to believe that in their ordinary environments such color schemes as the bright red of the marsh-deer, the black of the black jaguar, and the black with white stripes of the great tamandu&á, are not positive detriments to the wearers. ❋ Unknown (1914)
He shot two of the big marsh-deer, a buck and a doe, and preserved them as museum specimens. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Another of these marsh-deer swam the river ahead of us; I shot at it as it landed, and ought to have got it, but did not. ❋ Unknown (1914)
A marsh-deer out in the open makes no effort to avoid observation; its concern is purely to see its foes in time to leave a dangerous neighborhood. ❋ Unknown (1914)
The specialization of the marsh-deer, by the way, is further shown in its hoofs, which, thanks to its semiaquatic mode of life, have grown long, like those of such African swamp antelopes as the lechwe and situtunga. ❋ Unknown (1914)
When specially hunting the jaguar, marsh-deer, tapir, or big peccary, an ordinary light repeating riflethe 3030, 3040, or 256is preferable. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Then the trail struck off straight across the marshes, for jaguars swim and wade as freely as marsh-deer. ❋ Unknown (1914)
As always with these marsh-deer -- and as with so many other deer -- I was struck by the revealing or advertising quality of its red coloration; there was nothing in its normal surroundings with which this coloration harmonized; so far as it had any effect whatever it was always a revealing and not a concealing effect. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
When specially hunting the jaguar, marsh-deer, tapir, or big peccary, an ordinary light repeating rifle -- the 30-30, 30-40, or 256 -- is preferable. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
Indeed, it seems hard to believe that in their ordinary environments such color schemes as the bright red of the marsh-deer, the black of the black jaguar, and the black with white stripes of the great tamandua, are not positive detriments to the wearers. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
One of the vagaries of the ultraconcealing-colorationists has been to uphold the (incidentally quite preposterous) theory that the tail of our deer is colored white beneath so as to harmonize with the sky and thereby mislead the cougar or wolf at the critical moment when it makes its spring; but this marsh-deer shows a black instead of a white flag, and yet has just as much need of protection from its enemies, the jaguar and the cougar. ❋ Unknown (1914)
The marsh-deer, which has diverged much further from the northern type than this bush deer (its horns show a likeness to those of a blacktail), often keeps its antlers until June or July, although it begins to grow them again in August; however, too much stress must not be laid on this fact, inasmuch as the wapiti and the cow caribou both keep their antlers until spring. ❋ Unknown (1914)
