212 MAMMALIA. 



This species has the horns or elongated peduncles like the 

 Muntjacs, but it is easily distinguished from them by the absence 

 of the ridge, and of the grooves on the face. 



7- RUSA LEPIDA. SUNDEVALL RuSA. 



Reddish brown. Back and sides varied, with pale spotted hair. 

 Vent disk small, white, black edged above. Tail longly hairy, 

 white, above black. Face brown, with a roundish white spot in 

 front of the usual oral black spot. Horns smooth, slender, nearly 

 straight, elongate, the basal snag bent down on the forehead. 



Cervus (Hippelaphus) lepida, Sundevall, Pecora, 57. 



Rusa lepida, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 63; Proc. ZooL Soc. 1850. 



Hob. Java ? Young male specimen in Mus. Frankfort. 



Scarcely as large as a Roebuck. 



4. Axis. 



Fur formed of thick polished hairs, fulvous, and beautifully 

 white spotted at all seasons. Face elongate, narrow. Ears large, 

 rather elongate and acute. Tail rather elongate. Legs nearly 

 equally long slender. The horns are placed on moderately long 

 peduncles. The skull is elongate, narrow, with an oblong, rather 

 small, deep suborbital pit. 



Axis, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1850, 7 ; Gray, Knows- 

 ley Menag. 64 ; Proc. ZooL Soc. 1850. 



Cervus Axis, H. Smith, Griffith A.K.v. 182? ; Lesson, Mamm. 

 i. 267; N. Tab. R. A. 1?2, 1842. 



Cervus Hippelaphus * * *, Sundevall, Pecora. 



Axis tachetee, Blainv. Desm. Mam. ii. 448, 1822. 



1. Axis MACULATA. The Axis or CHITTRA. 



Fulvous, with a black dorsal streak ornamented, and two series 

 of white spots. Sides with many white spots in oblique curved 

 lines, and with a short white streak obliquely across the haunches. 

 Young fawn spotted exactly like the adult. 

 Axis, Pliny ; Buffon, H. N. xi. t. 38, 39; Cuvier, Menag. Mus. t. ; 



Oss. Foss. iv. 38. t. 5. f. 24, 29. 



Cervus Axis, Erxl. Syst. 312; Schreb. t. 250; H. Smith, Griff. 

 A. K. v. 786; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 39. t. 5. f. 29, horns; 

 Ogilby in Royle's Himal. 73 ; Bennett, Gard. Z. S. 253 ; Sun- 

 devall, Pecora, 57- 



Axis maculata, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 62, 1828; Gray, List 

 Mamm. B. M. 178; Cat. Osteol. Coll. B. M. 178; Cat. Hodg- 

 son Coll. B. M. 32; Knowsley Menag. 63; Proc. ZooL Soc. 1850. 



