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Drawing of horns. Hodgson, Icon. ined. B. M. t. 210. f. 66. 

 Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



The Bahraiya inhabits reedy marshes and islands of great 

 rivers ; never enters the mountains or forests. Tail short, with 

 no caudal disk, and no heavy mane. Hodgson. 



** The upper part of the horns simply forked. 



3. RUSA. 



Horns placed on a moderately long peduncle, with an anterior 

 frontal snag close on the crown, and simply forked at the tip. 

 Fur formed of hard, rigid, very thick hair, not, or only obscurely, 

 spotted. 

 Cervus Rusa, H. Smith, Griffith A. K. iv. ; Lesson, Mamm. i. 



264; N. Tab. R. A. 171. 

 Rusa, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1850, 6; Gray, Knows. 



Menag. ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. 

 Cervus, sp., Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1836, 135. 

 Cervus Hippelaphus * *, Sundevall, Pecora, 55. 

 Axis d'une seule couleur, sp., Blainv. Desm. Mam. ii. 448. 182. 

 Procervus (Dimorpha), Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1850, 5. 



* Hair of the neck elongated, forming a kind of mane, at least in 

 the males ; size large. 



1. RUSA ARISTOTELIS. The SAMBOO. 



Tail not floccose, brown, rather darker at the end. Fur black- 

 ish brown, with the feet, the regions of the vent, and a spot over 

 the eyes fulvous. Male maned. Young obscurely white spotted 

 (Hodgson). Skull : suborbital pit very large, broad, deep, ob- 

 long, subtrigonal. 



Gona Rusa, Daniel, Ceylon, t. 



Cervus Aristotelis, .Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 502. t. 39. f. 10 ; F. Cuv. 



Mam. Lith. t. ; Sundevall, Pecora, 55. 

 Cervus Hippelaphus, Ogilby in Royle's Himal. i. 73. 

 Cervus Hippelaphus, C. Aristotelis et C. heteroceros, Hodgson, 



Icon. ined. 

 Rusa Aristotelis, H. Smith ; Gray, List Mamm. B. M. ; Cat. 



Hodgson Coll. B. M. 67; Osteol. Spec. B. M. 67. 

 Rusa Hippelaphus, Gray, List Mamm. B.M. 179; Cat. Hodgson 



Coll. B. M. 33. 



Rusa equinus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 179. 

 Cervus unicolor, H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. 780. 

 Cerf de Coromandel, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 41. t. 5. f. 32, horns. 



