CKBVUS. 



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Eucervus diivaiicelii, liodqson, ./. A. S. B. xvi, p. 689; Bbjth, Cat 

 p. 150 ; id. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 835, fig-s. 1-5 ; Blanford, J. A. S. B 

 xxxvi, pt. 2, pp. 197, 199 ; Jerdon, Mam. p. 254 ; Anderson, J. A. 

 S. B. xxxvi, pt. 2, p. 185, note; Ball, Straij Feathers, ii. p. 371. 



Bdrasingha, Mdhd, II. ; Baraya, Gonr, Glios, Nepal Terai ; JImikar, 

 Kyarda Diin ; Goin, Siiid iV:c. ; GoinjakS , Gaoni'^, Central India; Bdra- 

 Nenvari, Sdl-Sdmar, Mnndla ; Bhelingi pohu, Assam. Sicamjy deer of 

 Jerdon. 



Size large. Hair moderately fine, ratlier woolly. Neck maned, 

 tail moderate. Muzzle elongate. No interdigital glands {Hodgson). 

 Skull narrow and long ; premasillaries produced considerably be- 

 yond the nasals. Horns smooth, with a brow -tine nearly at right 

 angles to the beam, frequently bearing smaller points on its upper 

 surface ; sports in the axils are rare. Above the brow-tine the 

 beam is unbrauched for more than half its length ; it then divides 

 into two, each branch dividing again. In the normal adult horn 

 figured in the accompanying cut the inner branch bears two tines, 



Fig. 175. — Skull and horns of Ccrvus duvauceli. (From a figure by Forsyth.) 



the outer three, but this number is often exceeded. Some remark- 

 able horns are figured by Blyth I. c, one pair of them having more 

 than twenty points. 



Colour in winter yellowish brown above, paler below, in summer 

 bright rufous-brown usually more or less spotted with white, 



