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first horns : but a specimen at Paris without horns, of the 

 same fulvous colours as the others, and said to be from 

 Java, shews a particularity not observed in others ; namely, 

 a small brush of stiff and long hairs on the outside of the 

 back of the ears, facing the posterior part of the pedicles. 

 In this individual the tusks are double, and the head is 

 smaller and narrower than in the preceding: as the pe- 

 dicles are above three inches long, it may be conjectured 

 that the individual was killed just after shedding the 

 prickets *. 



The manners of these animals are as yet very imperfectly 

 known, they seem, however, to reside in the woods in pairs, 

 or small families : when domesticated they are very gentle 

 and familiar. 



The Philippine Muntjak. (Cervus Philippinus.) If the 

 former specimens may be all referred to one species, the 

 present has characters which leave no doubt of its being 

 different. The specimen in the Paris Museum, brought 

 from the Philippine Islands, is somewhat larger than the 

 above. The horns are wanting, but the pedicles are not 

 above a quarter of the length of the head, and more bulky 

 than in the Rijang ; the ribs extend downwards only to 

 between the eyes ; the face is plane, the forehead slightly 

 arched. There is a dark streak on the anterior base of the 

 pedicles, and between them the hair is black, forming a 

 spot with the point downwards ; on the nose another dark 

 spot turns its point upwards, and leaves a crescent of a 

 dirty buff between them : this colour spreads round the 

 orbits and on the cheeks ; the lachrymary sinus is dark • 



* In Mr. Marsden's figure there is the same character of youth; 

 but in the Banksian collection are two views of a head by Dr. 

 Forster, where the short obtuse form of the pedicles, and the length 

 of the horns shew age. In these figures the eyes are surrounded 

 with long scattered hairs, and there are similar hairs on the chin : 

 he names it Cervus Plicatus. 



