Analysis of Periodical f forks on Natural His/oiy. 6S 



lation of putrefying vegetable matter, in process of time be- 

 came offensive at the entrance of the palace, and its removal 

 was ordered by the emperor, to a small village near the con- 

 fines of the capital, where, in the year 1821, it was accidentally 

 drowned in a rivulet." 



Of the Rumina7itia we also find but one species described: — 



Ceriics Muntjak. — C. cornibus caule elongato insidentibus 

 basi bipartitis ramo altero elongato subcontorto apice uncinate 

 altero brevi acuto, laniariis exsertis longissimis, sinubus lacry- 

 malibus maximis, facie rugosa sulcato. — Muntjak in the Sunda 

 language, Kidang in Javanese, and Kijang in Malayan : the 

 Chevreuil des hides of Allamand and Cuvier, Rib-faced Deer of 

 Pennant and Hamilton, and Cerxnis Muntjak of Zimmerman. 



This animal, perhaps the most elegant and graceful of the 

 genus, holds in the Indian islands the same place which the 

 Cervus Capreolus, or Roe, occupies in Europe ; it also resem- 

 bles that species in form and general proportions, but exceeds 

 it in dimensions, and surpasses it in agility and sprightliness. 

 With the Malayan poets it is the emblem of swiftness and 

 wildness. The peculiar character of the horns distinguishes 

 it at once from all other species of Cervus. The horns of the 

 •ddyx\iK'idang,\n a perfect state, consist of one principal branch, 

 with a smaller additional antler rising on the same base, from 

 the coronal margin of the pedestal, and projecting forward 

 and inward : the tubercles which occur on the horns in most 

 species of the Deer are wanting, except in the horns of the 

 first growth, which are nearly covered with small tubercles. 



Dr. Horsfield shows that the C. moschatus, and C. siibcor- 

 nutus of De Blainville were established from crania of the 

 Muntjak, the latter from an imperfect one; and accordingly 

 gives those names in his list of synonyms. Notwithstanding 

 the resemblance in many points which this animal bears to the 

 Roe, it differs from it in several essential particulars ; whilst by 

 its canine teeth and the great size of its lacrymal furrows, it is 

 coimected with C. Elujdius. 



We nmst jiostpone the characters of the Birds described in 

 this work luitil our next Number. [To be continued.] 



ANALYSIS OF PERIODICAL WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



Zoological Journal. No. VI. 

 This number contains the following papers: — On two new 

 genera of Birtis {Laiiiadcc), Formicivora and Dri/mo])hila, by 

 Mr. Swainson. — Description of a new genus of Mammiferous 

 Quadrupeds of the order Edentata, by Dr. Harlan, of Phila- 

 delphia, with a figure. The animal tit-scribed in this paper, 

 named Chlamyphorus trtincatus, is a very curious addition to 



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