2o4 Sir T. S. Raffles'* Descriptive Catalogue 



Its horns are large, furrowed and rugged, and, like the other 

 kinds of Axis, three-branched. Its colour is pretty uniformly 

 of a greyish-brown, darker on the belly ; the hinder parts and 

 tail have somewhat of a ferruginous shade, and the inside of 

 the limbs is whitish. The head is handsome ; the muzzle 

 black, and soft at its extremity. The chin is whitish. The 

 eyes have the usual lacrymal furrow. The female has no 

 horns ; in the male they are large, frequently more than two 

 feet in length, varying somewhat in the degree of divergence, 

 and in relative thickness and proportions ; their colour is more 

 or less dusky or brown. The burr at the base is tuberculated ; 

 the lowest branch is directed forward, and the upper, which is 

 shorter, looks backwards. The canines of the upper jaw are 

 rather long in old individuals. The ears are large, rather 

 naked, soft and whitish at the edges, and have some pencils 

 of long hair at the lower and inner margin. 



This species is elegantly formed, and in its habits is peculiarly 

 gentle and tractable. It is frequently kept tame, and has been 

 commonly known among Europeans in these islands by the erro- 

 neous name of Elk. The pair now in my possession were pre- 

 sented to me by the King of Acheen. 



A variety of this is described by the natives as of a darker 

 colour, being of a deep brown or nearly black, and called Rosa 

 etam or Rusa Kumbang. It is rather smaller than the common 

 kind, but has exactly the same horns, and in fact seems to dif- 

 fer in nothing but colour. 



The spotted Axis met with in these islands appears to be the 

 same as that of Bengal, and has probably been introduced from 

 thence. 



The middle Axis of Pennant is probably the small species most 

 frequent in Java, and generally dried as an article of food, called 

 Binding throughout the eastern islands. A white individual of 



this 



