RECORDS OF RIG GAME 



Frontlet and Antlers of Indian Sam bar. 

 From a specimen in the British Museum. 



SAMBAR DEER (Cervus [Rusa] unicolor). 



The typical representative of the Rusine group of deer, in which 

 the antlers are rounded and three-tined, both the bez and trez being 

 wanting, and the summit of the beam simply forked. The tail is long 

 and bushy, the tear-gland and the pit in the skull for its reception 

 are very large, and the upper ends of the nasal bones of the skull are 

 expanded. In the typical sambar the height reaches to 5 feet at 

 the shoulder. Antlers large and rough, with the brow-tine given off 

 at an acute angle to the beam, and the two terminal tines of nearly 

 equal length. Hair coarse and shaggy, uniformly dark umber-brown, 

 with some chestnut on the buttocks, at all ages. Face-glands very 



