206 Mr. C. Hose on a new Deer from Eastern Sarawak. 



XXXIII. — Description of a new Deer from Mount Dulit, 

 Eastern Sarawak. By Charles Hose, Resident of Baram, 

 Sarawak. 



During my exploration of Mount Dalit in 1892 * a species 

 of Deer was met with clearly different from the common 

 Bornean Deer {Cervus equinus) , but unfortunately the only 

 specimen of it that we could obtain was young, so that I am 

 not at present able to describe the adult animal. Tlie young 

 specimen, however, which is now in the Natural History 

 Museum at South Kensington, is so different from equally 

 young individuals of C. equinus^ that I feel no doubt that it 

 is really distinct from that species, the only Bornean Deer to 

 which it could be related. I would propose for it, in honour 

 of H.H. the Rajah of Sarawak, the name of 



Cervus Brookei^ sp. n. 



General colourof the fawn rufous, browner on head, neck, and 

 shoulders, richer on the posterior back, fore limbs from elbows 

 downwards, thighs, and outer sides of hind limbs. Muzzle 

 and sides of face brown ; forehead and crown rufous. Ears 

 externally dark blackish brown, edged with pale rufous, in- 

 ternally whitish. Back with an indistinct mesial blackish 

 line. Shoulders and rump spotted, the spots small, yellowish, 

 few in number on the shoulders, more numerous on the upper 

 side of the rump. Inner sides of limbs, both fore and hind, 

 and belly whitish, with a strong suffusion of rufous, especially 

 towards the feet. Chest between the fore limbs deep shining 

 black, this colour extending backwards along the lower part 

 of the sides, where it is divided in the centre by the whitish or 

 yellowish belly-colour. Middle of metatarsals with an elon- 

 gated tuft of rich rufous hairs, tipped with black. Feet rufous, 

 without black markings. Tail bushy, deep shining black. 

 In size this species probably attains a stature nearly or quite 

 equal to that of G. equinus. 



Hah. Mount Dulit, E. Sarawak. 



The young specimens of G. equinus that I have seen in 

 Sarawak differ from the type of this species by being almost 

 or quite unspotted, and by having none of the striking con- 

 trast between the deep black of the chest and tail and the 

 brilliant rufous of the sides and rump characteristic of 

 C. Brookei. 



• See ' Geographical Journal,' vol. i. p. 193, Mar. 1893, 



