584 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Measurements of specimens of Mimtjacs from Banket, Borneo, Sumatra, and Malay 



Peninsula. 



"From dried skin. 



6 Uterus contained a nearly mature embrvo. 



(JLast molars not through alveoli. 

 oFrom mounted skin. 



RUSA BROOKEI (Hose). 



Five specimens of a Sambar were obtained bj Doctor Ablx)tt on 

 Billiton, which I have referred to this species with some hesitation. 

 A study of the specimens of Malayan Bum in the National Museum 

 shows that the Sambars from Billiton, Borneo, Pagi Island, and Nias 

 Island are distinctly smaller than specimens of Husa equina from the 

 Malay Peninsula. (See table of measurements, page 585.) It is pos- 

 sible that the}^ may represent more than one form. In Deer of All 

 Lands, Lydekker calls the peninsular and island forms all equina, and on 

 page 153 considers that Hose's hrookel is identical with the common 

 Bornean Sambar. It would thus appear that the name hrookei should be 



