116 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



other is posterior and internal, and compared with the size 

 of the head, the horns are large and heavy, being about 

 thirteen inches long ; their colour is ashy, and they are ex- 

 tremely rugged. Between the horns the skull has a longi- 

 tudinal eminence, and before the orbits, near the base of 

 the nose, are two longitudinal convexities very remarkable, 

 and the species is destitute of canines, by which character 

 it approaches nearer to the true Axis ; the face is almost 

 black, with a streak running down from the horns, between 

 the eyes to the nose ; the muzzle small and black, and the 

 colour of the whole body dark-brown, slightly mixed with 

 gray, at least such are the colours now discernible, the 

 specimen being in a bad state of preservation ; the tail is 

 about four inches long and black. 



A fawn brought from the same island in the above mu- 

 seum is fulvous-brown without spots; the throat is whitish, 

 a white spot at the end of the lower jaw, and one at the 

 base of the ear. The inside and anterior border of the 

 thighs and buttocks are white, and the legs buff. 



From the similarity of structure in the skull there is a 

 probability that the same species inhabits Manilla; the 

 markings and colours being also nearly the same, only that 

 in this, canines appear, which the other seems to be always 

 without *. 



The Axine Group. 



Although the true Axines have horns of a similar form 

 with the Rusas, their structure is more slender and less 

 rugous. The animals themselves are small, the largest not 

 exceeding the Fallow-deer; they are without canines, and 

 their fur is mostly spotted with white. The ancients knew 



* It appears that Baron Cuvier has distinguished one of this 

 group by the name of Cervus Duvaucelii, but I do not tind which, 

 unless a new species should have been established by him since 

 the publication of his Ossemens Fossiles of 1823. 



