RVSA DEER 



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Skull and Antlers of Javan Rusa. 

 From a specimen in the British Museum. 



RUSA DEER (Cervus [Rusa] hippelaphus). 



General form, coat, and colour sambar-like ; but the ears smaller, 

 the tail thin, the hairs on the back banded with coloured rings, and the 

 under-parts, chin, and inner sides of buttocks whitish. Antlers com- 

 paratively slender and only moderately rough, with the brow- tine 

 medium or short, and making a large acute angle with the beam ; the 

 hinder or inner tine of the terminal fork much longer than the front 



