6 DECEMBER 1930, Page 15

Various Hunts of late have come across other animals than

the fox, and have put their hounds in a quandary. A year ago a wombat which escaped from the new zoo at Whipsoade was hunted to the death. This year hounds have several times come upon a strange animal that is more or less the size of a fox, though it is a deer. The Muntjack is now quite widely spread ; and men with guns as well as hounds with noses are not seldom in doubt whether it is right or wise to consider the animal as proper game. It would be interesting to know whether it is found to be harmful, for it bids fair to become established. It moves daintily, though it has a rather pig-like appearance. Foresters, I believe, do not welcome it. As a form of food it is the very best of the deer, at any rate mea sententia.