66 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
Antlers of Javan Rusa. 
From a specimen in the collection of Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 
The RUSA DEER (Cervus [Rusa] hippelaphus). 
General form, coat, and colour sambar-like ; but the ears smaller, 
the tail thin, the hairs on the back banded with coloured rings, and the 
under-parts, chin, and inner sides of buttocks whitish. Antlers com- 
paratively slender and only moderately rough, with the brow-tine 
medium or short, and making a large acute angle with the beam ; the 
hind or inner tine of the terminal fork much longer than the front 
or outer one, and forming the continuation of the beam, from the 
front or front outer surface of which the brow-tine arises as an off- 
shoot ; the two antlers enclosing a lyrate space. Young, uniformly 
coloured. There are two races of this species—one the Javan rusa 
(C. hippelaphus typicus) of the approximate size of a red deer, and the 
other the Moluccan rusa (C. hzppelaphus moluccensis), from Celebes and 
