254 BUSING. 



The first on the list is one that makes some approach in the number 

 of its branches to the true deer, and in aspect is intermediate between 

 Cervus and Rusa. 



Gen. RUCERVUS, Hodgson. 



Char. Horns moderately slender, smooth, pale, large, with one basal 

 process, no median ; the summit in maturity much branched ; muzzle 

 pointed ; canines in the males only. 



219. Rucervus Duvaucellii. 



Cervus apud CUVIER. BLYTH, Cat. 487. F. CUVIER, Mammif. II. pi. 

 104. C. elaphoidessmdC. bahraiya, HODGSON. C.euryceros, Knowsley 

 Menagerie. Barasingha, H. Bar ay a, of the Nepal Terai ; also Mdhd of 

 many parts at the foot of the Himalayas. Jhinkdr, in Kyarda Doon. 

 Potiya-haran, at Monghyr. Goen or GoenjaJc (the male) in Central 

 India ; Gaoni, the female. Swamp-deer of many Europeans, generally 

 Barasingha of sportsmen in Bengal, Oude, &c. 



THE SWAMP DEER. 



Descr. Horns very large and moderately stout, curving well outwards ; 

 pale, with basal antler, and a more or less branched summit, the lower 

 branches sometimes simulating a median tine. Form altogether lighter 

 than that of the Samber, especially the neck and fore-quarter ; hair finer 

 and more woolly ; tail moderately short. Colour dull yellowish-brown 

 in winter, bright rufous-brown or chestnut in summer, paler below and 

 inside the limbs ; white under the tail. The female is lighter, of a pale 

 dun or whity-brown colour. The young are spotted. 



Length, nearly 6 feet; tail 8 to 9 inches; height 11 to 11 J hands 

 (44 to 46 inches). 



Average length of horns 3 feet, or a little more. Fourteen and fifteen 

 points are not uncommon in old stags, and I have seen them with 

 seventeen. 



This fine deer is found in the forest-land at the foot of the Himalayas, 

 from the Kyarda Doon to Bhotan, and is very abundant in Assam, in- 

 habiting the islands and churrs of the Berrampooter, extending down the 

 river in suitable spots to the eastern Sunderbuns. It is also stated to 

 occur near Monghyr, and thence extends sparingly through the great forest 

 tract of Central India. It is rare to the south of the Nerbudda, but it 

 has to my knowledge been killed between the Nerbudda and Nagpore, 



