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colour is a bright yellowish-red, darker in the upper parts of the 

 back ; the fore legs from the shoulder downwards and the lower part 

 of the hind legs, dark bluish-brown ; anterior parts of the face from 

 the muzzle to between the eyes, brown — a blackish line running up 

 the inside of each frontal ridge ; chin, throat, inside of hind legs, 

 and under surface of tail white. The female has a black bristly 

 tuft of hair on the spot from which the pedicles of the antlers of the 

 male grow. The average length of the male, according to Jerdon, 

 is 3 1 feet, tail 7 inches, height 26 to 28 inches. The female is a 

 little smaller. The specimens from Java, Sumatra, and Borneo are 



Fig. 126. — The Muntjac (Ccrvulus muntjac). 



of larger size than those from the mainland, and may possibly be of 

 distinct species or race. 



C. lacrymans of Milne-Edwards, or Sclater's Muntjac of Swin- 

 hoe, from Moupin, and near Hangchow, China. 



G. reevesi, a very small species from southern China. 



Subsequently the name C. crinifrons has been applied to a Munt- 

 jac from Ningpo, China, readily distinguished from all other species 

 by its bushy forehead and long tail. Another species from Tenas- 

 serim has been described as C. fcce. 



Small Deer from the European Pliocene have been provisionally 

 referred to Cervulus, but the so-called Prox furcatus, of the Miocene, 

 is now included in Palccomerijx. 



Elaphodus. 1 — Antlers very small, unbranched, supported on long, 



1 Milne-Edwards, Nbuv. Arch, du Museum, vol. vii. Dull. p. 93 (1872). 



