Game Animals of India, etc. 



Sir E. G. Loder, is Mr. Holding's specimen, although 

 the length is given as 9^ inches. With the exception 

 of one pair in the same list, of which the length is 



provisionally stated 

 to be 8^ inches, no 

 Indian muntjac ant- 

 lers with which I 

 am acquainted equal 

 these dimensions. 



In 1904 Mr. D. 

 H. Allen presented 

 to the British 

 Museum the skull 

 of an old male munt- 

 jac picked up in the 

 Thouagyen Forest, 

 Amherst District, 

 Burma, the antlers 

 of which are almost 

 identical with those 

 of Dr. Hose's speci- 

 mens, showing the 

 same massiveness 

 and marked flatten- 

 ing of the inner 

 surface. The dimen- 

 sions of the left and 

 larger antler are as 

 follows : Length 



Fig. 48. 



-Frontlet ami Antlers of the Malay 

 Muntjac. 



alon 



g outer curve, 



6;| inches ; girth 

 above burr, 4^^ inches ; maximum width of inner surface, 

 i|^ inches. 



The combined evidence of these specimens tends to 

 show that Burmese and Malay muntjac commonly attain 

 an antler-development unparalleled in the Indian Cer- 

 vulus muntjac ; and it therefore seems legitimate to 

 regard the former as representing a distinct race. So 



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