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Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. vi, p. 402, 1852 ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1878, p. 905 ; Forbes, Naturalist's Wanderings in E. Archipelago, 

 p. 31, 1885; Wallace, Malay Archipelago, ed. 3, p. 300, 1890; 

 W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 179, 1891; 

 Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 297, 1893, Deer of All Lands, 

 p. 162, 1898 ; Bentham, Asiat. Horns and Antlers Ind. Mus. 

 p. 78, 1908 ; nee Cervus elaphus hippelaphus, Kerr, 1792. 



Cervus (Rusa) hippelaphus, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 

 vol. v, p. 309, 1827. 



Cervus tunjuc, Vigors and Horsfield in Lady Raffles' s Memoir of Sir 

 Stamford Raffles, p. 645, 1830 ; Blyth, Cat. Mamm. Mus. Asiat. 

 Soc. Bengal, p. 151, 1863. 



Rusa hippelaphus, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 179, 1843, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 231, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 209, 1852, 

 Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 77, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants 

 Brit. Mus. p. 148, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 261, 1862, partim ; Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 17. 



Cervus russa, Milller and Schlegel, Verh. Nat. Geschied. Nederland. 

 Zool. p. 217, pi. xliv, 1844. 



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



Handl. 1844, p. 178, 1846. 



Rusa paradoxa, Brehm, Zool. Garten, 1864, p. 11. 

 Cervus rufus, Blyth, quoted by Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. 



p. 77, 1872. 

 Cervus hippelaphus typicus, Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, p. 164, 



1898 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 67, 1910, ed. 7, 



p. 67, 1914. 

 Cervus (Rusa) hippelaphus, Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, 



p. 66, 1910, ed. 7, p. 66, 1914. 



SUMATRAN and JAVAN RUSA. 



Typical locality Sumatra. 



Smaller than the Indian sarnbar, and of the approximate 

 size of a red deer ; head of moderate length, with the facial 

 profile nearly straight; throat and neck of males with a 

 well-developed mane; ears broad, and less than half the 

 length of the head; tail only slightly longer than ears, 

 thinner than in the Malay sambar, and ending in a tuft of 

 thick coarse hairs ; general colour in summer dark grizzled, 

 ochery brown with a tinge of red, darker on the hind- 

 quarters and thighs than elsewhere ; front of neck, chest, 

 and under-parts varying from dirty white to brownish grey, 

 and a dark reddish brown longitudinal streak on front of 

 chest ; flanks shot with rusty brown, and frequently with a 

 patch of that colour ; inner sides of legs, shanks, and inner 

 sides of buttocks dirty whitish ; chin, lips, and under surface 



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