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Mammals of Eastern Asia 
Fig. 72. Sambar Deer, Cervus (Rasa) unicolor. 
dark smoky brown, without ticking. The tail is relatively long. 
The hairs along the throat form a kind of inverted mane. In 
Siam the horns are shed annually in August. Usually the fawns 
show little or no spotting. 
The Sika or East Asia Spotted Deer, subgenus Sika, are 
medium to small-sized, lightly spotted Deer, marked with a white 
rump patch of partly erectile hairs. The antlers bear four 
(rarely five) tines. The second tine of the antler branches off 
unusually far above the brow tine. Sika Deer have metatarsal 
and suborbital glands but no glands on the hind pasterns. The 
upper canines are small. These Deer occur along the eastern 
