ORDER RUM1NANTIA. Ill 



raised like a lion's mane, when the animal is excited. The 

 head, shoulders, back, rump, and buttocks, are dark- 

 brown in summer, and almost black in winter; outside of 

 the ears sepia; the belly whitish, as also a ring round 

 the nostrils and mouth, separated from the brown by a 

 deeper shade, which spreads up the face; the inside of 

 the limbs and legs are fawn colour, darker over the knees 

 down the front, and the breast black. This is the appear- 

 ance of the adult stag, the hinds are much smaller and 

 paler in colour. In the collection of drawings executed in 

 India in the possession of M. F. Cuvier, is the figure of a 

 Rusa, five years old, which lived in the Menagerie at Bar- 

 rackpore. 



According to the information received from friends, the 

 male is nearly the size of the Elk, and indeed is so named 

 in India by the British sportsmen. They represent him 

 as excessively strong and vicious. Some of them on a 

 shooting expedition had crossed an arm of the Jumna to a 

 woody island in quest of game, they were on the back of 

 an elephant, and, entering the jungle suddenly, roused an 

 old male of this species. On seeing the elephant he 

 started up with a loud shrill pipe or whistle, which caused 

 others to rise and dart into cover, while he stood at bay 

 with his bristly mane on end in a most threatening atti- 

 tude, but before the sportsmen could prepare proper shot, 

 he wheeled round and dashed through the underwood with 

 the facility of a rhinoceros. Captain Williamson evidently 

 met the same species. He describes the Stag as arriving 

 at the size of a Lincolnshire cart-horse, fifteen or sixteen 

 hands high, shining black, with tanned points (of the 

 hair ?). One of these, he says, heads a score of females, who 

 are of a mouse colour. He too calls it an elk, and adds 

 that they reside in the Prauss jungles. 



Of the two heads in the British Museum, one bears the 

 horns already noticed, and the frontal shews a high ridge 



