CERVUS MUNTJAK. 



Cervus Muntjak, der Muntjak, Zimmerman GeograpMsche Geschichte des Mens- 



chen und der vierfilssigen Thiere, II. Band, ^.131. Leipzig, 1780. (From the 



communication of Pennant.) 

 Cervus Muntjak, Boddaert Elen. anim. I. p. 136, Rotterdam, 1785. 

 Cervus vaginalis, id. id. 



Cervus Muntjac, Schreb. Sdugthiere. Tab. 2,54i. Syst. Linn. Ed. Gmel. I. p. 180. 



Fischer Zoognos. III. p. 458. Shaw's Gen. Zool. Vol. II. Part II. p. 301. 

 Cervus Moschatus, Blainv. nouv. Bull, de la Soc. Phil. 1816, />. 77. 

 Cervus subcornutus, id. id. Encycl. Method. Mammalog. 



Par. M. A. G. Desmarest, 1822.^. 442. 

 Cervus Muntjak ? Sir T. S. Baffles's Cat. of a Zool. Coll. made in Sumatra, Tr. Linn. 



Soc. XIII. p. ^Q5. 

 Cervus Muntjac, Desm. Encycl. I. cit.p. 441. 

 Cervus Moschus, id. id. 



Although a very common animal in the Islands of the Indian Archipelago, 

 the Cervus Muntjak or Kidang has only in very recent periods been distmctly 

 known in Europe. The first clear account of our animal, as it occurs in Java, was 

 communicated to the Public by Mr. Pennant, in the Second Edition of his History 

 of Quadrupeds, which was published in 1781 ; and the learned author of the History 

 of Sumatra, soon after this period, mentioned it with the name of Kijang, by which 

 it is distinguished in that Island. The name of Cervvis Muntjak was first employed 

 by Zimmerman, in the German Edition of his Geographical Zoology. Schreber pub- 

 lished a copy of AUamand's figure of this animal, as it occurs in Bengal, with an 

 incorrect modification of the native name, which had been communicated to Zim- 

 merman by Pennant. Since this period we find this name generally adopted by 

 systematic writers, as appears by the preceding references. Mr. Allamand had 

 an opportunity, in the year 1778, of examining an animal, brought in a living state 

 to Amsterdam from Bengal, which had all the characters of the Cervus Muntjak. 

 He gave a very excellent description of it, with the name of Chevreuil des Indes, 

 in the edition of BufiPon's Natural History which he published in Holland ; this was 

 afterwards introduced, by the author himself, into the Sixth Volume of the Supple- 

 ment of the Natural History of Quadrupeds and Birds, which appeared in 1782. 

 The animal described by Allamand agrees in general character and in form with the 



