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the Javanese, where both species are found. This smaller 

 may be the Middle Axis of Pennant, established upon the 

 examination of the horns in the British Museum already 

 noticed *. 



Rusa of Timor. (Cervus Peronii.) The Baron describes 

 a head in the Paris Museum, brought from Timor by the 

 late M. Peron. The beams of the horns are rather slender, 

 and the posterior snag is more equal in length with the 

 summit of the perch ; these horns are of a pale-brown 

 colour ; the skull shews a longitudinal elevation of the cra- 

 nium between the horns very prominent, and the posterior 

 angle of the orbit is raised in a remarkable manner ; it has 

 canines, and the head long and pointed, but the colours of 

 its fur are unknown. The learned author suspects this to 

 be Pennant's Middle Axis, and the adult of the species 

 which Dr. Blainville describes by the name of Cervus Niger, 

 from a figure in a collection of Indian drawings, said to be 

 in the British Museum, but where upon inquiry it is not 

 found. It is probably a mistake, and that the original is 

 in the collection at the India House. The engraved copy 

 shews the usual fault of India drawings of deer, in the legs 

 being too short and the figure clumsy -f*. Were the original 

 without any description, we should consider it as represent- 

 ing a small animal of the Porcine Deer species ; the horns 

 being ill-grown, the oval form of the head, the great eleva- 

 tion of the croup, the absence of bristly hairs on the breast, 

 and the form of the tail, appear to justify the conjecture. 



* One or more of these species are said to be gregarious, and 

 occasionally driven in large herds to some point or station where 

 great numbers are slain. 



t I judge this to be the case from the number of living subjects 

 copied by myself and others, always differing in this particular 

 from the designs of Indian artists of the very same species. I 

 possess several in which this want of feeling, expression, and 

 proportion, is remarkable, though the drawings are otherwise highly 

 finished. 



