Zoological Society. 4^1 



'General HaMwicke has a drawing of a DeeVrtfife'fV6fitartog of 

 the horns very much elongated, and apparently forked : Colonel 

 Hamilton Smith made an "improved" drawing from the sketch; 

 and in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1837 I mention 

 the species under the name of C. Smithii, p. 48. 



I am now doubtful if the sketch might not have hf^en imt'eiided for 

 this species ,or a new one aUied to it.^j^j^^ ^^^,,^^^ ^y^^ leirovh/H 



6. RucERVus, Hodgson; l?ir«A'/^p.'A';iSmilB."'^''^" '""'- 



Horns cylindrical, with an anterior basal branch, and repeatedly 

 forked at the tip ; muffle large, high, continued to the edge of the 

 upper lip below ; they have a rather short, thick tail, a shortish face, 

 a well-developed crumen, broad rounded ears, covered with hjiir, and 

 narrow compressed hoofs. The fur is formed of rather soft adpressed 

 hairs ; they have no pale mark on the rump, and are indistinctly 

 Spotted. The skull has an elongate face, with a large nose-opening, 

 and an oblong, rather shallow, suborbital pit. 



I. RuCERVUS DUVAUCELLII. The BAHRAIYA^i^^y^l «ivtid«iiill 



Yellowish brown, without any rump-spot ; back w^fi'^^^'lfid^tmct 

 dark streak, with a row of white spots on each side ; sides not spotted ; 

 hair black, with yellow tips ; neck with rather longer hair ; throat, 

 chest and belly with longer, scattered, greyish white hairs ; muzzle 

 and front of leg dark ; chin white. Fur in winter dark brown. 



Cervus Duvaucellii, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. t. 29. f. 6, 8. — Rucervus 

 Duvaucellii, Gray, Cat. Hodgson's Coll. B. M. 33. — Rucervus ela- 

 phoides, Hodgson. — R. Duvaucellii, Gray, Knows. Menag. 61. — . 

 Cervus Bahrainja, Hodgson. — C. enclodocerus, Hodgson. — C. Bah- 

 raiya, Hodgson, P. Z. S. 1836,46. — C. Eurycerosy Knowsley Menag.. 

 t. 40, 41. — Bahraiya, Hodgson. biiuM »dT .■^im^ 



Inhabits India. \ d.ino^ -^4 boar^i:o3 



* The True Rusas have the upper part of the horns simply forked. 



7. RusA, H. Smith ; Cervus Hippelaphi'^'^y S\mde\a\\. 



They are covered with hard, rigid, very thick hairs ; they are not, 

 or only obscurely, spotted ; the horns are placed on a moderately long 

 peduncle, have an anterior frontal snag close on the crown, and are 

 simply forked at the tip. 



^(^ifthe Larger kinds have the hair of the neck elongated, forming 

 a kind of mane, at least in the male*/* ujiuiio io jUitnia} n umI ii^iio 



1. RusA Aristotelis. The Sam boo.' 



Tail not floccose, brown, rather darker at the end ; blackish brown, 

 with the feet, the region of the vent, and a spot over the eyes fulvous. 

 Male maned. Young obscurely white spotted (Hodgson). 



Gona Rusa, Daniel, Ceylon, t. . — Cervus Aristotelis, Cuvier, 

 Oss. Foss. iv. 502. t. 39. f. 10 ; F. Cuv. Mam. Lith. t. ; Sundev. 

 Pecora, 5.5. — Cervus Hippelaphus, C. Aristotelis, and C. heteroceros, 

 Hodgson, Icon. ined. — Rusa Aristotelis, H. Smith ; Gray, Cat. 

 Hodgson*s Coll. B. M. Q7 ; Osteol. Spec. B. M. 6/ ; Knows. Menag. 



