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The horns take six months for their perfect replacement, and are 

 not complete in form until the fourth year, nor in size till the 

 eighth year. Hodgson. 



Colonel Sykes believes the Sambur of the Mahrattas to be the 

 C. equinus of H. Smith; he observes, "it wants the size and is 

 not so dark as the Sambur of Bengal." P. Z. S. 1831. 



2. RUSA DIMORPHE. The SPOTTED RUSA or GERVER. 



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. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. 74; Wiegm. Arch. 1845, ii. 40; 



Sundevall, Pecora, 132. 



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

 son Coll. in B. M. 33. 



Procervus dimorpha, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1850, 5. 

 Hob. India ; Saul Forest ; Morang. 



Stuffed, not good state. India. The specimen described and 

 figured by Mr. Hodgson. 



It is very doubtful if the above specimen is more than an ac- 

 cidental variety, with distorted horns, of the Sambur. 



The Gowers are not gregarious, confined to the Saul Forest. 

 Hodgson. 



3. 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. Young : hair smooth. 



Rusa ubi, R. saput et R. Tunjuc, Raffles, Linn. Trans, xiii. 



268. 

 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 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 



1836, 67. 

 Greater Muntjac, Waterhouse, Cat. Mus. Zool. Soc. 1828, 13. 



n. 302, 303 <? ?; 1839,39. 

 Cervus Rusa, S. Mutter, Nederl Verh. 45. t. 43. 

 Cerf Noir de Bengal, F. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. t. 2, in summer. 

 Rusa Hippelaphus, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 62 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1850. 

 Cervus Leschenaultii, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 508. t. 39. f. 9, from 



horns only. 



