CEEVUS. 539 



Rucervus duvaucelii, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 689; Blyth. Cat 

 p. 150 ; id. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 835, figs. 1-5 ; Stanford, J. A. S. B 

 xxxvi, pt. 2, pp. 197, 199 ; Jo-don, Mam. p. 254 ; Anderson, J. A. 

 S. B. xxxvi, pt. 2, p. 185, note; Ball, Stray Feathers, ii. p. 371. 



Bdrasinyha, Mdhd, H. ; Baraya, Gonr, Ghos, Nepal Terai ; Jhirikar, 

 Kyarda Dun ; Goin, Sind c. ; Goinjaktf, GaoniQ, Central India; Bdra- 

 Nerwari, Sdl-Sdmar, Mundla ; Bhelingi pohu, Assam. Swamp deer of 

 Jerdon. 



Size large. Hair moderately fine, rather woolly. Neck maned, 

 tail moderate. Muzzle elongate. No interdigital glands (Hodgson). 

 Skull narrow and long ; premaxillaries produced considerably be- 

 yond the nasals. Horns smooth, with a brow-tine nearly at right 

 angles to the beam, frequently bearing smaller points on its upper 

 surface ; sports in the axils are rare. Above the brow-tine the 

 beam is unbranched for more than half its length ; it then divides 

 into two, each brauch dividing again. In the normal adult horii 

 figured in the accompanying cut the inner branch bears two tines, 



Fig. 175. Skull and horns of Ccrvus duvauceli. (From a figure by Forsyth.) 



the outer three, but this number is often exceeded. Some remark- 

 able horns are figured by Blyth I. c., one pair of them having more 

 than twenty points. 



Colour in winter yellowish brown above, paler below, in summer 

 bright rufous-brown usually more or less spotted with white, 



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