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Re: CHAT: Vexillology and games (was: Re: Flag ofEngland)

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 17:09
Barry Garcia wrote:
->>It is an animal (small kind of deer).
>>Irina is the first one of all people I asked who knows. > >There's 3 species of small deer in the Philippines, A spotted Visayan type >( Cervus alfredi), the Calamian Hog Deer (Axis calamianensis), and the Usa >(Cervus mariannus, a regional variant of Cervus unicolor).>
The dictionary calls it "mouse deer". I've never seen one, except in pictures; they are quite small, like the "tiny dik-dik" that one sees on African nature shows....