1874.] SIR V. BROOKE ON THE GENUS CERVULUS. 39 



1873. Cervulus amostylis, Gray, ibid. p. 165. 



1873. Cervulus tamulicus, Gray, ibid. 



Anterior parts of the face, from the muzzle to between the eyes 

 brown, a blackish line running up the inside of each frontal pedestal' 

 I he rest of the pedestals, upper parts of the forehead, and occiput 

 foxy red. Fore legs, from the shoulder downwards, line in front of 

 the hind legs, starting from the patella, and all the limbs from the 

 tarsal joints downwards, dark bluish brown. Chin, throat, inside of 

 hind legs and under surface of tail white. The rest of the body of 

 a brilliant yellowish red, darker in the upper parts of the back—the 

 hairs on the sides being grey below, strongly tipped with yellow, 

 those on the back being also ringed with. black. 



Fig. 3. 



Skull of Cervulus muntjac. 



Skull. Depression in the lachrymal bone for the reception of the 

 suborbital gland not occupying the entire bone, a portion of the 

 lachrymal falling in a vertical direction between the frontal bone, the 

 anteorbital vacuity, and the gland. 



Height about 26" at the shoulder. 



Hab. British India, Burmah, Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java, 

 Hainan ; Banka, Borneo (ScM. fy Miill.). 



In a large collection of the skins, skulls, and horns of this species, 

 which I have received from all parts of India and Burmah, and in 

 a considerable number of living specimens which I have examined, 

 I have observed amongst adult animals so much difference in size 

 and intensity of coloration, that I have found it impossible to retain 

 the Muntjac of Java and Sumatra as a distinct species. The Munt- 

 jacs from the south of India are, as a rule, decidedly smaller than 

 those from the north, as is also the case with the Axis and Indian 

 Antelope. But even this rule is subject to many exceptions ; I have 

 received from Northern India perfectly adult and even slightly a»ed 

 specimens of both Muntjac and Axis inferior in size to the average 

 as presented by these species in Southern India. These small races 



