Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The East-Indian muntjac, Cervulus aureus.

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Examples

  • It can also arrange just permits and transportation.www. barking-deer.com Yushan National Park also runs guided hikes in the autumn, though these are difficult to get into.

    Taiwan's Greatest Ascent Robert Kelly 2010

  • It can also arrange just permits and transportation.www. barking-deer.com Yushan National Park also runs guided hikes in the autumn, though these are difficult to get into.

    Taiwan's Greatest Ascent Robert Kelly 2010

  • It can also arrange just permits and transportation.www. barking-deer.com Yushan National Park also runs guided hikes in the autumn, though these are difficult to get into.

    Taiwan's Greatest Ascent Robert Kelly 2010

  • The evening was warm and very still, and whenever the conversation died away, no sound save the monotonous note of the nightjars or the sudden cry of a barking-deer, broke the silence since the echoes of the "Lights Out" bugle call had died away among the hills.

    The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

  • C. Shore, who observed its habits in Kumaon and Gurhwal, "its food is chiefly birds, rats, mice, hares and even young fawns of the kakur or barking-deer."

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • The "barking-deer" is common on the lower hills of the Himalaya

    The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

  • It was the "kakur," or "barking-deer;" so called from its barking habit, which had drawn the attention of the hunter upon it.

    The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

  • Not only the hunter, man, but the tiger, the leopard, the cheetah, and other predatory creatures, take advantage of this foolish habit of the barking-deer; and stealing upon it unawares, make it their victim.

    The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Mayne Reid 1850

  • Of the barking-deer, like most other deer of India, there are several varieties very little known to naturalists; and the species called the

    The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

  • Some, also, he obtained from the barking-deer, which Caspar had killed in the morning; and others he took from the limbs of the yaks that had been brought home in their skins.

    The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

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