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rut in December or January and breed in May, whence they 

 gestate six months. Hodgson. 



Do not ascend the mountains. Ogilby. 



Easily known from the Axis by being lower on its legs, and 

 there is no distinct black dorsal streak, nor white streak on 

 haunches. The horns are generally short, with only short snags 

 or branches, but they are sometimes as large as those of the Axis 

 Deer. 



The Cervus Dodur, Royle, HimaL t. 5. f. 1, and Ogilby in 

 Royle, i. 73, of the Himalayas, " of an ashy grey colour, the size 

 of the female Antilope Cervicapra, and more graceful than the 

 Hog Deer," is only known from the above description and figure 

 of a female. As Hog Deer are said not to ascend the mountains, 

 it is probably a distinct species. 



Cervus Pumilio, H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. n. 788; McClel- 

 land, P. Z. Soc. 1839, 150, is perhaps only a variety of the Hog 

 Deer. 



6. CERVULUS. 



Horns on elongated pedicels, supported by longitudinal ridges 

 on the face, which have a naked moist groove on their side. 

 Canine teeth exserted. Crumen large and deep. Tail elongate 

 and tufted. Hoofs triangular and partly united in front by a 

 web; the false hoofs are small and transverse. Fur of thin, 

 shining hair, and not spotted. They have no tuft of hair on the 

 outside of the hind legs. Skull with a very large, deep, nearly 

 hemispherical suborbital pit. The young, before the horns ap- 

 pear, have a bald groove on the head. 



Muntjacus, Gray, Lond. Med. Repos. 1821 ; Cat. Mamm. B. M. 



xxvii. 



Muntiacus, Rafinesque, Anal. Nat. 56, 1815. 

 Stylocerus, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 182; Lesson, Mamm. i. 273; 



Nov. Tab. Reg. Anim. 174. 

 Prox (Moschatus), Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1836, 135; Sundevall, Pe- 



cor a, 61. 



Cervulus, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 65 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. 

 Cervus Cervulus, Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil ,1816, 74. 

 Cerf, Les Cervules, Blainv. Desm. Mam. ii. 44 9, 1822; Lesson, 



Mam. 368. 



Cerf a longues canines, Lesson. 

 Stylocerinidte, J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 62. 

 Dioplon, J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 62. 



1. CERVULUS VAGINALIS. The KIJANG or MUNTJAC. 



Dark reddish brown. Narrow streak on the front edge of the 

 thigh white. 



