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These we take for the old specimens of Java, but it ap- 

 pears, also, that there are others of a bright fulvous-brown 

 in the same island, which would cause a suspicion that 

 there is a second species or a variety ; but it may be, 

 that these animals change their colours with the monsoons, 

 or what is still more probable, that they are young speci- 

 mens. In confirmation of this supposition it may be re- 

 marked, that the fawns are fulvous-brown, with small white 

 spots, which spots soon disappear ; that the young males, 

 distinguishable by their long slender pedicles, have the 

 whitish parts under the throat, breast, and round the lower 

 abdomen more reddish than those which are further ad- 

 vanced in age, when the white becomes more pure as the 

 pedicles shorten and widen at the summit ; it spreads also 

 by degrees round the mouth, under the jaw on the throat 

 and breast, and down the internal surface of the thighs. 

 It may therefore be conjectured, that the white part of the 

 hair, which it is invariably at the base, ascends to the sur- 

 face, and effaces more or less of the fulvous, and constitutes, 

 in reality, a sign of old age : the comparison of above a 

 dozen specimens seem to warrant the opinion. 



The individuals sent from Sumatra to Paris are, in truth, 

 all fulvous, and Sir T. S. Raffles describes his Sumatran 

 Kijang with the same colours, the white being visible on 

 the chin, breast, lower abdomen, inside and anterior part 

 of the thigh, and under part of the tail. A female in the 

 Paris Museum, marked from Ceylon, and a male certainly 

 adult, are fulvous ; although the pedicle is still long, it is 

 not flattened at the summit, and the horns were in their 

 growing state, the velvet being still upon them. If the 

 opinion of Sir T. S. Raffles respecting their changing 

 horns only once, or at least very rarely, be correct, we may 

 conclude that this also is a young animal. The skull in Sur- 

 geons 1 College, from which Dr. Blainville drew his cha- 

 racters of Cervus Moschatus is of a young male with the 



