SAMBAR . 59 
Frontlet and Antlers of Indian Sambar. From a specimen in the British Museum. 
The SAMBAR DEER (Cervus [Rusa] unicolor). 
The typical representative of the rusine group of deer, in which 
the antlers are rounded and three-tined, both the bez and trez being 
wanting, and the summit of the beam simply forked. The tail is long 
and bushy, the tear-gland and the pit in the skull for its reception 
are very large, and the upper ends of the nasal bones of the skull are 
expanded. In the typical sambar the height reaches to 5 feet at 
the shoulder. Antlers large and rough, with the brow-tine given off 
at an acute angle to the beam, and the two terminal tines of nearly 
equal length. Hair coarse and shaggy, uniformly dark umber-brown, 
with some chestnut on the buttocks, in the adult. Face-glands very 
large, and capable of being turned inside out. Ears large, and the 
tail relatively long and bushy. Young uniformly coloured or spotted. 
