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CLASS MAMMALIA. 



destitute of horns, this character is replaced by two bristly, 

 broad, and dark spots above the eyes resembling eyebrows ; 

 or by a coarse dark patch of hair, like a mask or chaffron, 

 which covers the forehead, and descends on the nose, and 

 also retains the brow-like, bristly terminations over the 

 eyes. Mr. Pennant's Rib-faced Deer, or Muntjak, with two 

 antlers upon each horn, appears still unknown ; for all the 

 specimens at present in the Cabinets of Europe have only 

 one or none, and the beam terminates in a simple unci- 

 nated point without bifurcation : it is probable that this 

 supposed character has arisen from some inaccuracy of ex- 

 pression or of the press. The females have four teats in a 

 quadrangular position. The tongue of these animals is 

 extremely long, so that they can extend it even beyond the 

 eyes, a conformation which they have in common with the 

 Musks, who often lick their eyelids. None of this group 

 appear to shed their horns more than once, the first pricket 

 being replaced by a permanent horn with a small anterior 

 basal antler. The fawns are chestnut-coloured, with nu- 

 merous white spots, if we may judge of the whole by 

 one brought from Sumatra, and another said to be from 

 Ceylon. 



The Kijang. (Cervus Muntjak.) This species appears 

 to be the Cervus Vaginalis of Boddaert, and the Chevreuil 

 des Indes of Allaman. The male is smaller than the 

 Roebuck, and of an elegant form. The body is com- 

 pact, the legs remarkably fine and slender; the muzzle 

 is rather broad, and the canines assume the form of in- 

 verted tusks, sharp at their posterior edge, and hanging 

 out of the mouth with their points turned towards the 

 animal and outwards. Two rib-like eminences ascend from 

 above the nose over the eyes, and elevating themselves from 

 the head in the form of slender pedestals to the height of 

 two and a half inches, terminate in a flattened summit. 

 Upon these the horns are placed, about three or four 



