64 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Cervus (Rusa) peronii, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v, 



p. 311, 1827. 

 Axis peronii, Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. iii, p. 165, 



pi. xii, 1835. 

 Cervus russa timoriensis, Milller and Schlegel, Verli. Nat. Geschied. 



Nederland. Zool. pp. 212 and 220, 1844. 

 Cervus (Hippelaphus) peronii, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. 



Handl 1844, p. 179, 1846. 

 Rusa peronii, Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. iii, p. 165, 



pi. xii, 1835 ; Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 63, 1850, Cat. 



Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 211, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. 



p. 78, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 150, 1873; 



Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. MILS. p. 261, 1862; Fitzinger, 



Sitzber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixviii, pt. 1, p. 355, 1873, 



vol. Ixx, pt. 1, 317, 1874 ; Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 17. 

 Hippelaphus timoriensis, Heude, Mem. Hist. Nat. Emp. Chinois, 



vol. iii, p. 51, 1896. 

 Cervus hippelaphus timoriensis, Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, 



p. 170, 1898. 



RUSA. 



Typical locality Timor. 



Type in Paris Museum. 



In its larger phase, a deer with the general form, coat, 

 and colouring of a sambar, but the ears smaller, the tail thin, 

 the hairs on the back banded with differently-coloured rings, 

 and the sides of the upper lip, chin, under-parts, and inner 

 sides of the thighs and buttocks more or less distinctly 

 whitish ; size medium ; antlers comparatively slender and 

 only moderately rugose, with the brow-tine of medium or 

 short length, and making a large acute angle with the beam ; 

 the hind, or inner tine of the terminal fork much longer 

 than the front, or outer, one, and forming the continuation 

 of the beam, from the front, or front-outer surface of which 

 the front tine arises as an offshoot ; the two antlers enclosing 

 a more or less distinctly lyrate space. Young uniformly 

 coloured ; hind-pasterns apparently with a glandular cleft. 



The three recognised races may be distinguished as 

 follows : 



A. Size smaller. 



a. Neck distinctly maned C. t. timoriensis. 



b. Neck maneless C. t. moluccensis. 



B. Size larger C.t.tunjuc. 



