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region round the orbits, cheeks, nose, and chin. He had a 

 dark streak down the face ; the ears were rather broad, 

 with pointed tips, nearly naked within, but furnished with 

 long white hair at the anterior side of the opening. The 

 Baron says, Oss. Foss, vol. iv. p. 41, that the buttocks 

 are pale fawn, as in our stag ; but this mark neither M. F. 

 Cuvier's figure, Mam. Lithog., in the summer coat, nor ours 

 in the winter garb, exhibits*. The tail is dark^brown, 

 terminated by black hairs; the breast is dark coloured, 

 passing also along the flank ; the muzzle of this species is 

 more pointed, and the forehead less arched than in our 

 stag. The horns augment progressively in volume as in 

 the Spotted Axisf- 



A male and female from Java likewise in the Museum 

 of Paris, resemble the above almost completely ; the female 

 is smaller, but in other respects like the Stag. In the 

 male the antlers are fully developed, though not quite so 

 robust in proportion. The Stag is larger, his face darker, 

 with a kind of band round the nose and mouth, which is 

 white. The dark colours of the neck and back, composed 

 of an ochery sepia-gray, extend in a list down the fore- 

 legs, and a streak up the posterior pasterns ; round the 

 eye, ears, and cheeks, the colour is ochery-gray, and the 

 same tones extend over the breast, belly, inside, and an- 

 terior part of the thighs and legs. The tail also is buff, 

 terminated with a brush of long black hair. 



The species has canines, and a deep suborbital opening. 



* This we believe to be a mistake arising from the Hippelaphus 

 being confounded with Equinus, which last the Baron saw alive in 

 London, but anterior to the development of the bifurcation, and, 

 consequently, before the specific identity could firmly be esta- 

 blished, as we shall see when we describe that species. 



t In this species the forehead is arched as in the Common Stag, 

 and transversely depressed between the eyes. It is probable that 

 the Persian Gewazen and the Arabian Ajal designate this species. 



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