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CLASS MAMMALIA. 



between the horns. There is, besides, another with the 

 skull nearly perfect, and the horns very robust, but rather 

 short. In the Paris Museum is one of smaller dimensions, 

 brought from the coast of Coromandel, probably of this 

 species, but younger, the horns being less developed. 



The Malayan Rusa. (Cervus Equinus.) In the de- 

 scription of Hippelaphus the Baron refers to a specimen 

 which he saw in London (Oss. Foss. vol. iv. p. 40), reported 

 to him as coming from Bengal, and which at that period 

 had only its first horns or brockets. It is, however, more 

 likely that it came from the Indian Archipelago, although 

 there is great probability that the species also resides in 

 India; We saw this individual in the Menagerie of Mr. 

 Cross at Exeter 'Change, and made two drawings of it, the 

 first during the same season when M. Cuvier was in Lon- 

 don. The animal was then about two years old, and his 

 horns were simple, or in the brocket state ; the next year 

 its new horns shewed the bifurcation of the summit to be 

 as in the Black Rusa of Bengal ; that is, near the summit 

 on the internal posterior side. It was then four feet or 

 something more at the shoulder, and still higher at the 

 croup ; its eyes were large, dark, and mild : the suborbital 

 slit opened at pleasure, and was remarkably expanded 

 when it drank, with a perceptible action of the air passing 

 in and out, as before noticed. The ears, broad and pointed, 

 were nearly naked within and whitish-gray without, the 

 face, shoulders, back, and thighs, were of a dark-brown 

 gray ; the hair rough and bristly on the neck and throat. 

 This colour was darker, and the hair very long, especially 

 the second year, when the crest or mane on the neck and 

 throat hung very heavy and thick ; the breast and belly 

 were dark ashy, almost black. A considerable disk of a 

 clear rusty, or orange colour, expanded over the buttocks, 

 lined the inferior side of the tail, and was separated by a 

 black line from the gray of the thighs. The tail, about a 



