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NEPAUL STAG. 



Cervus Wallichii. CUVIER. 

 PLATE X. 



Le Cerf de Wallich, Cervus Wallichii, F. Cuv. Hist. Nat. 

 des Mammif. Nepaul Stag, Griffith's Cuv. iv. 103, and 

 Synop. 



THE only authority for this animal is the litho- 

 graphic plate published by Frederic Cuvier in his 

 Mammiferes. That plate is copied from a drawing 

 procured by M. Duvaucel, from a specimen which 

 Dr Wallich had sent from Nepaul to the Menagerie 

 at Barrackpore. The notes and descriptions which 

 were to have accompanied it were lost, and the 

 drawing remained alone as the source of inform^- 

 tion. We can only give a translation from Frede- 

 ric Cuvier. " The Nepaul Stag is of a yellowish- 

 brown ; the muzzle, lower part of the cheeks, around 

 the eyes, the lower part of the limbs, and their inner 

 surface, are of a paler tint than the body; the lower 

 jaw is white anteriorly, and there is a black spot on 

 the lower lip at the point where it joins the upper. 

 The tail is very short and white, as well as a large 

 snot on the rump. The inside of the ear is also 

 white. Upon all the body the hair is opening, 



