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THE BROWN PORCINE AXIS. 

 Axis porcinus. 

 PLATE XIV. 



Porcine Deer, Pennant^ Quadrup. Cerf cochon, M. F. 

 Fred. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. des Mammif. 



THIS appears undoubtedly to be the animal fi- 

 gured and referred to by Pennant in his History of 

 Quadrupeds, from a specimen sent to Lord Clive 

 from Bengal, and named, from its thickness and 

 clumsy body, " Hog Deer." A more modern and 

 accurate figure has been given of an animal in the 

 Parisian Menagerie, in the Mammiferes of Frederic 

 Cuvier, and which seems to have been similar to 

 that which supplied Mr Pennant's description. It 

 is nearly of the size of the Spotted Axis, and is re- 

 markable for the rounded outline of the head, and 

 the heavy and awkward proportions of the body. 

 The horns in this figure are slender, with a single 

 short antler at the base, and the fork at the tip 

 slightly developed. The colour is entirely of a yel- 

 lowish-brown, slightly paler on the lower parts. The 

 insides of the limbs are white, and around the eyes, 

 with the hinder parts of the cheeks, are yellowish, 



