10 THE NATUIIAL HISTOET REVIEW. 



forests of Cashmir, and probably in those of the Nepalese Terai ; 

 while we suspect that the Ccrvus qffinis of Hodgson, although it has 

 been called "the Saul forest Stag,"* is confined to the northern 

 slopes of the Himalayan range. It is certainly quite contrary to 

 the laws of distribution that these two large, nearly-allied species 

 should co-exist in the same area. The Eusine Cervi^ on the other 

 hand, arc the characteristic group of the Indian region, to which 

 indeed they are peculiar. In India proper we have four distinct 

 species of this form — the Cervus duvaucelii of Upper Bengal, Nepal, 

 and Assam — the C. aristotelis or Sambur, Avhich is generally distri- 

 buted over the peninsula and Ceylon — the Cervus axis with the same 

 wide distribution, and the Cervus porcimcs confined to the eastern 

 parts of India and Ceylon, but according to Mr. Blyth "unknown in 

 the peninsula of India generally." On the opposite side of the Bay of 

 Bengal the very distinct Cervus eldii occurs, which ranges from Pegu 

 northward to the valley of Munipur. The four first-named species of 

 Indian Deer have already been introduced into this country and bred 

 in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, and we hear 

 that the last-named species, so conspicuous for its curiously 

 lengthened brow-antlers may be shortly expected as a new addi- 

 tion to the Society's celebrated Menagerie. The only remaining 

 member of the family Cervidce is the Muntjac (the Barking Deer or 

 Jungle Sheep of the Indian sportsmen), very incorrectly, as we 

 believe, placed by Mr. Blyth in the family of Moschidse. It is certainly ' 

 not a Musk, although its exserted canines give it a superficial resem- 

 blance to those animals, and together, with the elongated pedicils on 

 which the horns are mounted, distinguish it from the typical 

 Cervida). Mr. Blyth does not separate the Indian Cervulus from 

 the true G. vaginalis of Java and Sumatra, although, judging from the 

 living specimens seen in this country, the latter would appear to be 

 the larger and finer animals, and quite as different as many 

 similarly allied representative forms. 



The Tragulidaj as, in accordance with M. A. Milne-Edwards' f 

 views, we suppose we must call the next group, appear to have only 

 one representative in India — the Tragulus meminna. The T. kancldl 

 occurs in the* southern Tenasserim provinces, but the locality of 



* Gray, Cut. of Ungulata, p. 199. 

 t Sec Nat. Hist. Rev. 1864, p. 495. 



