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In this figure the horns are almost simple, the beam having 

 only a very small antler on the front of the base, and the 

 rest bending back, and then upwards ; the colour of the face 

 is brown-black, particularly about the eyes and mouth, and 

 clearer under the belly, the internal face of the limbs alone 

 being white ; the tail is rather long and black. The whole 

 appearance is in outline similar to an Indian drawing we 

 possess of the dark Porcine Deer, and the colours are not 

 very dissimilar : it may be a new species, for we see no in- 

 dications by which it may be referred to this or the next. 



Rusa of Malacca. M. F. Cuvier (Mam. Lithog.) re- 

 presents a female from the Peninsula of Malacca of the 

 size of the hind of Europe. Its colour is brownish-black, 

 excepting the border of the lips, inside and base of the 

 ears, inside of the limbs and legs, which are white ; the 

 tail is black, and broader at the point than at the base ; the 

 edge of the buttocks rust colour, and a pale streak runs 

 across the inner angle of the eyes ; but the most remark- 

 able character is a depression above each eye, forming a 

 sinus analagous to that of the Chamois, but which this 

 last animal has behind the horns ; the hair is hard and 

 strong. M. F. Cuvier states, that the animal, while 

 living in the Menagerie of Paris, was mild and perfectly 

 tame, it would follow like a dog, and would scarcely 

 suffer itself to be intimidated. The Baron conjectures that 

 it might be the female of C. Hippelaphus, and we are 

 inclined to view it as the Hind of Rusa Etam of Sir T. S. 

 Raffles. 



Rusa of the Mariannas. (Cervus Mariannus.) There is 

 in the Museum of Paris, a specimen brought from the 

 Marian Islands by Messrs. Quoy and Gaimard ; it is more 

 robust but not much taller than a roebuck, with round 

 divergent horns standing on a low pedicle, having two 

 antlers, the basal nearly vertical, and at its junction with 

 the beam a small process not unlike a trilobed tooth ; the 



