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212 ; MAMMALIA. 
This species has the horns or elongated peduncles like the 
Muntjacs, but it is easily distinguished from them by the absence 
of the ridge, and of the grooves on the face. 
7. RuSA LEPIDA. SUNDEVALL RUSA. 
Reddish brown. Back and sides varied, with pale spotted hair. 
Vent disk small, white, black edged above. ‘Tail longly hairy, 
white, above black. Face brown, with a roundish white spot in 
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front of the usual oral black spot. Horns smooth, slender, nearly — 
straight, elongate, the basal snag bent down on the forehead. 
Cervus (Hippelaphus) lepida, Swndevall, Pecora, 57. 
Rusa lepida, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 63; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. 
Hab. Java? Young male specimen in Mus. Frankfort. 
Scarcely as large as a Roebuck. 
4, Axis. 
Fur formed of thick polished hairs, fulvous, and beautifully 
white spotted at all seasons. Face elongate, narrow. Ears large, 
rather elongate and acute. ‘Tail rather elongate. Legs nearly 
equally long slender. The horns are placed on moderately long 
peduncles. The skull is elongate, narrow, with an oblong, rather 
small, deep suborbital pit. 
Axis, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1850, 7; Gray, Knows- 
ley Menag. 64; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. 
Cervus § Axis, H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. 1827; Lesson, Mamm. 
i. 267; N. Tab. R. A. 172, 1842. 
Cervus Hippelaphus § * * *, Sundevall, Pecora. 
Axis tachetée, Blainv. Desm. Mam. ii. 448, 1822. 
1. Axis MACULATA. The Axis or CHITTRA. 
Fulvous, with a black dorsal streak ornamented, and two series — 
of white spots. Sides with many white spots in oblique curved 
lines, and with a short whité streak obliquely across the haunches. 
Young fawn spotted exactly like the adult. . 
Axis, Pliny; Buffon, H. N. xi. t. 38, 39; Cuvier, Menag. Mus.'. ; 
Oss. Foss. iv. 38. t. 5. f. 24, 29. 
Cervus Axis, Eral. Syst. 312; Schreb. t. 250; H, Smith, Griff. 
. A. K.v. 786; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 39. t. 5. f. 29, horns; 
Ogilby in Royle’s Himal. 73 ; Bennett, Gard. Z. 8.253; Sun- 
devall, Pecora, 57. . ; . 
Axis maculata, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 62, 1828; Gray, List 
Mamm. B. M.178; Cat. Osteol. Coll. B. M.178; Cat. Hodg- 
son Coll. B. M.32; Knowsley Menag. 63; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. 
