ORDER RUMINANTIA. 1 IS 



foot in length, was black above; the joints of the legs, 

 the inside of the thighs and their anterior side were yel- 

 lowish-dun, and the legs from the joints downwards buff; 

 the chin was white with a black spot at the corner of the 

 mouth on the lower lip, and a bar of the same colour 

 above the nostrils, which were placed on a black muzzle ; 

 the cheeks and space round the eyes were buff passing to 

 gray. It had canines, and Baron Cuvier detected them like- 

 wise in the female. 



The horns are of a dark colour, rugous, robust, but 

 shorter and less curved than in the Hippelaphus ; the an- 

 terior antler and posterior snag are both short and obtuse, 

 but from the size of the first or brocket horns of the animal 

 being near eight inches long, it is presumed that they be- 

 come, if not much prolonged, at least very bulky : his second 

 horns were about fourteen inches. This species resembles 

 the Bengal Rusa in many particulars : both have the fore- 

 head flat and face straight ; the muzzle small with spots of 

 black on the under lip, and a ring round the nose ; the ears 

 naked inside ; the horns short, stout, and similarly formed ; 

 the same mane and dark breast. In fact, the only obvious 

 differences are the presence of a disk on the buttocks of 

 the present, which does not appear on the former, and 

 that of dimensions, but even in this particular there can 

 be no great disparity. It may be, therefore, that ulti- 

 mately these two will be marked as only varieties of one 

 species. 



The sailors and the people at Exeter "'Change, named 

 it Jamboe and Great Water Stag, no doubt a corruption 

 from the Javanese name Mejangan Banjoe. It was de- 

 cidedly the same species which Sir T. S. Raffles de- 

 scribed in the Lin. Transactions, under the generic name 

 of Rusa. The Dutch of Java call it the Elk. Sir T. S. 

 Raffles mentions a smaller variety of a deep-brown colour, 

 nearly black, named Rusa Etam and Rusa Kumbang by 



