 | Frederick Markham - 1854 - 428 páginas
...ground together. When at full speed, these bounds are sometimes astonishing for so small an animal. On a gentle slope, I have seen them clear a space of...precipitous ground, have perhaps no equal. Where even the burrell is obliged to move slowly and carefully, the musk-deer bounds quickly and fearlessly ; and... | |
 | Frederick Markham - 1854 - 432 páginas
...full speed, these bounds 92 SPEED AND AGILITY. are sometimes astonishing for so small an animal. On a gentle slope, I have seen them clear a space of...spring over bushes of considerable height at the same tune. They are very sure-footed, and although a forest animal, in travelling over rocky and precipitous... | |
 | 1856 - 606 páginas
...ground together. When at full speed, these bounds are sometimes astonishing for so small an animal. On a gentle slope I have seen them clear a space of more...precipitous ground, have perhaps no equal. Where even the burrell is obliged to move slowly and carefully, the musk-deer bounds quickly and fearlessly; and although... | |
 | 1856 - 594 páginas
...ground together. When at full speed, these bounds are sometimes astonishing, for so small an animal. On a gentle slope I have seen them clear a space of more...very sure-footed, and although a forest animal, in traveling over rocky and precipitous ground, have no equal. Where even the burrell is obliged to move... | |
 | 1856 - 824 páginas
...ground together. When at full speed, these bounds are sometimes astonishing, for so small an animal. On a gentle slope I have seen them clear a space of more...successive leaps, and spring over bushes of considerable hight at the same time. They are very sure footed, and although a forest animal, in traveling over... | |
 | G. W. Septimus Piesse - 1862 - 434 páginas
...ground together. When at full speed, these bounds are sometimes astonishing for so small an animal. On a gentle slope I have seen them clear a space of more...precipitous ground, have perhaps no equal. Where even the burrell is obliged to move slowly and carefully, the musk-deer bounds quickly and fearlessly ; and... | |
 | 1866 - 610 páginas
...ground together. When at full speed, these hounds are some times astonishing for so small an animal. On a gentle slope I have seen them clear a space of more...precipitous ground, have perhaps no equal. Where even the burrell is obliged to move slowly and carefully, the musk-deer bounds quickly and fearlessly ; and... | |
 | George William Septimus Piesse - 1867 - 414 páginas
...ground together. When at full speed, these bounds are sometimes astonishing for so small an animal. On a gentle slope I have seen them clear a space of more...precipitous ground, have perhaps no equal. Where even the burrell is obliged to move slowly and carefully, the musk-deer bounds quickly and fearlessly ; and... | |
 | Sir George Watt - 1890 - 550 páginas
...ground. Colonel Markham (Jour. Sporting Adventures and Travel in Chinese Tartary and Thibet) says : " On a gentle slope I have seen them clear a space of more...over bushes of considerable height at the same time." It is an exceedingly shy animal of nocturnal habit, and not much larger than a greyhound. Of all ruminants... | |
 | 1856 - 720 páginas
...ground together. When at iull speed, these bounds are sometimes astonishing, for so small an animal. On a gentle slope I have seen them clear a space of more...successive leaps, and spring over bushes of considerable bight at the samo time. They are very sure footed, and although a forest animal, in traveling over... | |
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... along the edge of such a ledge or precipice, in preference to the forest. If not walking leisurely and slowly along, the musk-deer always goes in bounds, all fours leaving and alighting on the ground together. When at full speed, these bounds are... 