Zoological Society, 425 



Easily known from the Axis by being lower on its legs, and there 

 is no distinct black dorsal streak, nor white streak on haunches ; the 

 tail bushy, and often carried erect : the males and females in summer 

 are reddish brown, with numerous white spots, the middle of the back 

 rather darker ; in winter the whole fur becomes blackish brown, and 

 the spots disappear : the horns are generally short, with only short 

 snags or branches, but they are sometimes as large as those of the 

 Axis Beer. 



10. Cervulus, Blainv. 181 G; Mmitjacus, Gray, 1821; 

 StyloceruSy H. Smith ; Prox, Ogilby, Sundev. 



Horns on elongated pedicels, supported by longitudinal ridges on 

 the face, which have a naked, moist groove on their side ; the canine 

 teeth are exserted ; the tear-bags are large and deep ; the tail elon- 

 gate and tufted ; the hoofs triangular, and partly united in front by 

 a web ; the false hoofs are small and transverse ; they are covered 

 with thin shining hair, and are not spotted ; they have no tuft of hair 

 on the hind-legs ; skull with a very large, deep, nearly hemispherical 

 suborbital pic . ' ; . ^ . 



1. Cervulus vaginalis. The Kijang or Muntjac. 



Dark reddish bro\vn ; narrow streak on the front edge of the thigh 

 white. 



Kijanffy Marsden, Sumatra, 94. — Cervus Muntjac, Zimm. Schreb. ^ 

 t. 254 ; Horsfield, Java, vi. t. 1 ; Raffles, Mem. 645. — Prox Muntjac'J^ 

 Sundev. Pecora, 61. — Cervus vaginalis, Bodd, Elenc. i. 136. — C. sub-''' 

 cornutus, Blainv. Schreb. t. 254 b. f. 2. — Muntjacus vaginalis, Gray, '^ 

 Cat. Mamm. B. M. 173. — Cervus aureus, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 148. 

 t. . V. 805. — Ribbed-face Deer, Penn. — Chevreuil des Indes, AUam, 

 Buif. Supp. V. 41. t. 17, vi. 195. t. 26; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. t. 5. 

 f. 48, t. 3. f. 49, 54. — Cervulus vaginalis, Gray, Knows. Menag. ^5. 



Inhabits Sumatra ; Java. 



This chiefly differs from the following in being darker- coloured. 



2. Cervulus moschatus. The Kegan or Kaker. 



Bright reddish yellow ; streak on front of thigh and under part of 

 the tail white ; chin and gullet whitish ; hair not ringed. 



Var, With a triangular white spot on each side of the'chest. 



Musk Beer of Nepal, Ouseley, Orient. Collect, ii. t. . — Cervulus 

 moschatus, Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816, 77 \ Schreb. t. 254 b. f. 1; 

 H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 149. t. . v. 806. — Cervus moschus, Desm. 

 Mamm. 441 . — C. llatwa, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, i. 146. 

 t. head ; P. Z. S. 1834, 99 ; Boyle, Flora Cashm. t. 5. f. 2.^Stylor 

 cerus Ratioah, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, x. 914. — Munt-^i^k 

 jacus vaginalis, part. Gray, Cat. Hodgson's Coll. B. M. 31. — Proai .i 

 Rativa, Sundev. Pecora, 62. — P. albipes,ViRgneY, SuppL; Sundev. fj 

 Pecora, 62. — P. stylocerus, Wagner, Suppl.; Sundev. Pecora, 62, 64. 

 — Cervus melas, Ogilby. — Prox melas, Sundev. Pecora, 62.— Cervulus 

 moschatus, Gray, Knows. Menag. Qb. V>" 



Inhabits India, Nepal. 

 Ann, ^ Mag. N. Hist, Ser. 2. Fo/.ix. 28 



