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colour is a bright yellowish-red, darker in the upper parts of the 

 back ; the fore legs from the shoulder downwards and the lower part 

 of the hind legs, dark bluish-brown ; anterior parts of the face from 

 the muzzle to between the eyes, brown a blackish line running up 

 the inside of each frontal ridge ; chin, throat, inside of hind legs, 

 and under surface of tail white. The female has a black bristly 

 tuft of hair on the spot from which the pedicles of the antlers of the 

 male grow. The average length of the male, according to Jerdon, 

 is 3 1 feet, tail 7 inches, height 26 to 28 inches. The female is a 

 little smaller. The specimens from Java, Sumatra, and Borneo are 



FIG. 126. The Muiitjac (Cervulus muntjac). 



of larger size than those from the mainland, and may possibly be of 

 distinct species or race. 



C. lacrymans of Milne-Edwards, or Sclater's Muntjac of Swin- 

 hoe, from Moupin, and near Hangchow, China. 



C. reevesi, a very small species from southern China. 



Subsequently the name 0. crinifrons has been applied to a Munt- 

 jac from Ningpo, China, readily distinguished from all other species 

 by its bushy forehead and long tail. Another species from Tenas- 

 serim has been described as C. fcce. 



Small Deer from the European Pliocene have been provisionally 

 referred to Cervulus, but the so-called Prox furcatus, of the Miocene, 

 is now included in Palceomeryx. 



JElaphodus. 1 Antlers very small, unbranched, supported on long, 



1 Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Arch, du Mustum, vol. vii. Bull. p. 93 (1872). 



