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Skull and Antlers of Indian Muntijac. 
The MUNTJAC or BARKING DEER (Cervulus muntjac). 
This species is the typical representative of a genus of small Indo- 
Malay deer differing widely from all those included in Cervus. The 
antlers, which do not usually exceed half the length of the head, have 
a short brow-tine and an unbranched beam, and are supported on long 
skin-covered pedicles, continued downwards as convergent ridges on 
the forehead, whence the name of rib-faced deer. Tufts of bristly 
hair occupy the position of the antlers in the females. The muzzle 
has a large naked portion, and although there is generally a pair of 
glands on the face, there are none either on the hock or the cannon- 
bone. The young may be spotted, but the adults are uniformly coloured. 
The range of the typical muntjac, which is one of the reddish- 
coloured species, extends from Ceylon and India through Burma to 
China, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java. Reeves’ muntjac 
(C. reevesz), from China and Formosa, a smaller species, is also 
reddish, as is Sclater’s muntjac (C. sc/aterz) of Central China, and the 
Tibetan C. lachrymans ; C. bridgemant, of Central China, is darker ; in 
the Tenasserim muntjac (C. fee), and the larger hairy-fronted muntjac 
(C. crinzfrons) of Eastern China the general hue is dark purplish sepia- 
brown, with white on the buttocks and under surface of the tail. The 
average height of the male of the typical species at the shoulder is 
from 20 to 22 inches, and the weight about 38 lbs.; a female stands 
about 20 inches and weighs about 32 lbs. 
Several local races of the ordinary muntjac doubtless exist. The 
typical form (C. muntjac typicus) is the Javan animal; the Burmese 
race has been distinguished as C. muntjac grandicornis, while the Indian 
