Zoological Society. 421 



General Hardwicke has a drawing of a Deer, the frontal snag of 

 the horns very much elongated, and apparently forked : Colonel 

 Hamilton Smith made an "improved" drawing from the sketch; 

 and in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1837 I mention 

 the species under the name of C. Smithii, p. 48. 



I am now doubtful if the sketch might not have been intended for 

 this species or a new one allied to it. 



6. Rucervcs, Hodgson ; Rusa, sp. H. Smith. 



Horns cylindrical, with an anterior basal branch, and repeatedly 

 forked at the tip ; muffle large, high, continued to the edge of the 

 upper lip below ; they have a rather short, thick tail, a shortish face, 

 a well-developed crumen, broad rounded cars, covered with hair, and 

 narrow compressed hoofs. The fur is formed of rather soft adpressed 

 hairs ; they have no pale mark on the rump, and are indistinctly 

 spotted. The skull has an elongate face, with a large nose-opening, 

 and an oblong, rather shallow, suborbital pit. 



1. Rucervus Duvaucellii. The Bahraiya. 



Yellowish brown, without any rump-spot ; back with an indistinct 

 dark streak, with a row of white spots on each side ; sides not spotted ; 

 hair black, with yellow tips ; neck with rather longer hair ; throat, 

 chest and belly with longer, scattered, greyish white hairs ; muzzle 

 and front of leg dark ; chin white. Fur in winter dark brown. 



Cervus Duvaucellii, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. t. 29. f. 6, 8. — Rucervus 

 Duvaucellii, Gray, Cat. Hodgson's Coll. B. M. 33. — Rucervus ela- 

 phoides, Hodgson. — R. Duvaucellii, Gray, Knows. Menag. 61. — 

 Cervus Bahrainja, Hodgson. — C. enclodocerus, Hodgson. — C. Bah- 

 raiya, Hodgson, P. Z. S. 1836,46. — C. Euryceros, Knowsley Menag. 

 t. 40, 41. — Bahraiya, Hodgson. 



Inhabits India. 



* The True Rusas have the upper part of the horns simply forked. 



7. Rusa, II. Smith; Cervus Hippelaphi**, Sundevall. 

 They are covered with hard, rigid, very thick hairs ; they are not, 

 or only obscurely, spotted ; the horns are placed on a moderately long 

 peduncle, have an anterior frontal snag close on the crown, and are 

 simply forked at the tip. 



f The Larger kinds have the hair of the neck elongated, forming 

 a kind of mane, at least in the males. 



1. Rusa Aristotelis. The Samboo. 



Tail not floccose, brown, rather darker at the end ; blackish brown, 

 with the feet, the region of the vent, and a spot over the eyes fulvous. 

 Male mancd. Young obscurely white spotted {Hodgson). 



Grona Ruia, I);ini('!, Ceylon, t. . — Genu* Aristotelis, Cuvier, 

 Oss. Foss. iv. 6Q2. t.30. A 10; F. Cuv. Mam. Lith. t. ; Sundev. 

 Pccora, o.3. — Cervus llippe.hiphxs, ('. Aristotelis, and C.heteroceros, 

 Hodgson, Icon. ined. — Rusa Aristotelis, H. Smith ; Gray, Cat. 

 Hodgson's Coll. B. M. 67 ; Osteol. Spec. B. M. 67 ; Knows. Menag. 



