422 Zoological Society. 



62. — Cervus unicolor, H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 780. — Cervus Benga- 

 lensis, Schinz, Syn. Mam. ii. 390. — Dai?n noir de Bengal, Duvaucell, 

 Asiat. Res. xv. 157. — C erf noir de Bengal, F. Cuvier, Menag. Lith. 

 t. . — Cervus equinus (Samboo Beer), Bennett, Tower Menag. 185, 

 fig. — Elk, Indian Sportsmen ; Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. — Var. Cervus 

 heteroceros, Hodgson, J. A. S. Beng. 1841, 722. t. 



Var. 1 Biche de Malacca, F. Cuv. Mam. Lith. t. female. — Cervus 

 Malaccensis, Fischer, Syn. 



Inhabits India ; Ceylon. 



The skull is about 1 7 inches long, and has a very deep, oblong, 

 sub triangular, suborbital pit. 



The specimen from Ceylon, in the Zoological Gardens, differs from 

 the common Samboos from India in having shorter and thicker horns. 



Nearly black in October ; the front of the muzzle rounded, the nose 

 black, forming a band across the chin ; front of chin (only) white ; 

 tail all black ; face paler than back, and more grisled, but uniformly 

 coloured, without any black streak over the eyes or up the side of the 

 nose ; vent flesh-coloured. Much larger. 



2. Rusa Dimorphe. The Spotted Rusa. 



Red-brown ; back with distinct series of small white spots ; sides 

 indistinctly white spotted ; limbs paler; neck and belly blackish; chin 

 white ; the horns (deformed ?) . Young bright fawn-red, white spotted. 



Cervus Dimorphe, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1844, t. ; 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. 74 ; Sundevall, Pecora, 132.— Rusa 

 Dimorpha (Hodgson's Rusa), Hodgson in Gray, Cat. Hodgson's Coll. 

 in B. M. 33 ; Gray, Knows. Menag. 62. 



Inhabits Saul Forest ; Morang. 



3. Rusa Equinus. The Rusa or Smaller Samboo. 



Brown, not spotted ; tail rounded, floccose, black at the tip ; hair 

 (summer) elongate, rigid, thick, waved. Young very obscurely 

 spotted ; hair rigid and rough. 



Rusa, Raffles, Linn. Trans, xiii. 2G3. — Cervus equinus, Cuvier, 

 Oss. Foss. iv. 44. t. 5. f. 30, 37, 38, 42 ; H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 1 12. 

 t. ; Sundevall, Pecora, 55 ; S. Miiller, Nederl. Verh. — Eland or 

 Elk of the Dutch Sportsmen. — Rusa Equinus, Gray, Knows. Menag. 

 62. t. 43. 



Inhabits Sumatra ; Borneo. 



4. Rusa Hippelaphus. The Mijangan Banjoe. 



Greyish brown ; tail not floccose, brownish at the tip ; anal region 

 not pale ; cheeks and upper part of the neck of the males maned ; 

 hair (summer) short, rigid, close-pressed, not waved. Young : hair 

 smooth. 



Rusa ubi, R. saput and R. Tunjuc, Raffles, Linn. Trans, xiii. 260. 

 — Cervus hippelaphus, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. t. 5. f. 31, 34 & 42 ; 

 F. Cuvier, Mam. Lithog. t. ; Raffles, Mem. 645. — Cervus Tunjuc, 

 Vigors, in Raffles' Memoir, 645. — Cervus Rusa, S. Miiller, Nederl. 

 Verh. 45. t. 43. — Great Muntjac, "Waterhouse, Cat. Mus. Zool. Soc. 

 1839, 39.— Cerf noir de Bengal, F. Cuvier, Mam. Lithog. t. 2, in 



