marsh-deer

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).

In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Algot Lange

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.

In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Algot Lange

In one meadow by a pond we saw three marsh-deer, a buck and two does.

IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay 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.

IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay 1914

He shot two of the big marsh-deer, a buck and a doe, and preserved them as museum specimens.

III. A Jaguar-Hunt on the Taquary 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.

IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay 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.

IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay 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.

IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay 1914

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.

Appendix B. The Outfit for Travelling in the South American Wilderness 1914

Then the trail struck off straight across the marshes, for jaguars swim and wade as freely as marsh-deer.

IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay 1914