Rusa. 503 
GENUS RUSA—THE RUSINE DEER. 
Antlers with a brow tine, the beam bifurcating into a tres and royal 
tine ; muffle large ; lachrymal fossa large and deep ; ante-orbital vacuity 
very large ; rudimentary canines in both sexes, except in the hog deer ; 
tail of moderate length ; no feet-pits. The males heavily maned. 
No. 471. Rusa ARISTOTELIS. 
The Sambar (Jerdon’s No. 220). 
Native NaMes.—Sambar or Samhar, Hindi; /erai and /Jerao in the 
Himalayas; Zaha in the Terai; dZeru, Mahrathi; J/a-00, Gondi; 
Rusa Aristotel's. 
Kadavi or Kadaba, Canarese; Kannadi, Telegu; Ghous or Gag, 
Eastern Bengal, the female Bholongi ( Jerdon) ; Schap, Burmese (Blyth) ; 
Gona-rusa, Singhalese (Keé//aar‘). 
Hasirat.—Throughout India from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin; 
through Assam round to the east of the Bay of Bengal, down through 
Burmah to the’Malay peninsula ; it is also found in Ceylon. 
DescrIPTION.—The sambar stag is a grand animal, with fine erect 
carriage, heavily Maned neck, and with massive horns of the rusine 
