12 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Muntiacus muntjak, Rafinesque, Analyse de la Nature, p. 56, 1815. 

 (?) Cervulus subcornutus, Blainville, Bull. Soc. PJiilom. 1816, p. 77. 



Cervus (Stylocerus) muntjak, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 



vol. v, p. 319, 1827. 

 (?) Cervus (Stylocerus) subcornutus, H. Smith, op. cit. p. 320, 



1827. 

 Stylocerus muntjak, Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. iii, 



p. 185, 1835. 



(?) Stylocerus subcornutus, Jar dine, loc. cit. 1835. 

 Prox moschatus, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 136. 



Prox muntjac, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 85 ; 

 Fitzinger, Sitzber. Jc. Ale. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixviid, pt. 1, p. 362, 

 1872, vol. Ixxix, pt. 1, p. 41, 1879. 



Cervulus muntjac, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 38, 1878, p. 899 ; 

 Anderson, Zool. Results Yunnan Exped. p. 337, 1878 ; Sterndale, 

 Mamm. India, p. 500, 1884; Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. 

 Mus. R. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 286, 1884; W. L. Sclater, Cat. 

 Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 173, 1891 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. 

 India, Mamm. p. 552, 1891 ; Flower and Lydekker, Study of 

 Mammals, p. 317, 1891 ; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 314, 

 1893, Deer of All Lands, p. 203, 1898, Great and Small Game of 

 India, etc. p. 238, 1900, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 257, 1907, 

 Cat. Hume Bequest, Brit. Mus. p. 40, 1913 ; Percy, Big Game 

 Shooting (Badminton Libr.), vol. ii, p. 268, 1894; Jentink and 

 Biittikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. xix, p. 63, 1897 ; Holding, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 295; Finn, ibid. 1903, vol. ii, p. 2; 

 Manners- Smith, Journ. Bombay Asiat. Soc. vol. xvii, p. 237, 

 1906 ; Comber, ibid. vol. xviii, p. 490, 1908 ; Ward, Records of 

 Big Game, ed. 6, p. 80, 1910, ed. 7, p. 80, 1914 ; Pocock, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 952. 



Muntiacus muntjac, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. (Field Mus. Zool. 

 Pub. vol. viii) p. 38, 1907 ; Thomas and Wroughton, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1909, p. 392; Lyon, Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus. vol. xl, p. 73, 

 1911. 



Typical locality Java. 



The type species. 



Size relatively large, the shoulder-height ranging from 

 about 20 to 22 inches ; ears narrow and pointed ; crown not 

 tufted; frontal glands large; tail relatively short (about 

 7 inches) ; colour ranging from chestnut-red (deep rufous) 

 to orange-tawny, with a brown or black streak down the 

 front of each antler-pedicle, and in a corresponding position 

 in females, a pale crown-patch, and a grizzled nuchal area ; 

 insides of ears, chin, upper part of throat, buttocks, inner 

 sides of thighs, inner surfaces of fore-legs to knees, and 

 under side of tail white ; lateral hoofs very small ; lachrymal 

 pits occupying only lower half of lachrymal bone. 



