206 Mr. C. Hose on a new Deer from Eastern Sarawak. 
XXXIII.—Description of a new Deer from Mount Dulit, 
Eastern Sarawak. By CHar.es Hoss, Resident of Baram, 
Sarawak. 
DurING my exploration of Mount Dulit in 1892 * a species 
of Deer was met with clearly different from the common 
Bornean Deer (Cervus equinus), but unfortunately the only 
specimen of it that we could obtain was young, so that I am 
not at present able to describe the adult animal. The young 
specimen, however, which is now in the Natural History 
Museum at South Kensington, is so different from equally 
young individuals of C. equinus, that I feel no doubt that it 
is really distinct from that species, the only Bornean Deer to 
which it could be related. I would propose for it, in honour 
of H.H. the Rajah of Sarawak, the name of 
Cervus Brooke, sp. n. 
General colourof the fawn rufous, browner on head, neck, and 
shoulders, richer on the posterior back, fore limbs from elbows 
downwards, thighs, and outer sides of hind limbs. Muzzle 
and sides of face brown; forehead and crown rufous. ars 
externally dark blackish brown, edged with pale rufous, in- 
ternally whitish. Back with an indistinct mesial blackish 
line. Shoulders and rump spotted, the spots small, yellowish, 
few in number on the shoulders, more numerous on the upper 
side of the rump. Inner sides of limbs, both fore and hind, 
and belly whitish, with a strong suffusion of rufous, especially 
towards the feet. Chest between the fore limbs deep shining 
black, this colour extending backwards along the lower part 
of the sides, where it is divided in the centre by the whitish or 
yellowish belly-colour. Middle of metatarsals with an elon- 
gated tuft of rich rufous hairs, tipped with black. Feet rufous, 
without black markings. ‘Tail bushy, deep shining black. 
In size this species probably attains a stature nearly or quite 
equal to that of C. equinus. 
Hab. Mount Dulit, EK. Sarawak. 
The young specimens of C. equinus that I have seen in 
Sarawak differ from the type of this species by being almost 
or quite unspotted, and by having none of the striking con- 
trast between the deep black of the chest and tail and the 
brilliant rufous of the sides and rump characteristic of 
C. Brooket. 
* See ‘ Geographical Journal, vol. i. p. 193, Mar. 1893. 
