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and rump, were of a bright fulvous-yellow ; the neck and 

 face not so brilliant ; the nose dun ; the throat, belly, in- 

 side of the limbs, and fetlocks, pure white; the external 

 side of the legs buff; the hoofs black, small, and pointed ; 

 forming altogether the most beautiful creature of the whole 

 species. Its native country was unknown, but we recollect 

 that a deer, termed at Exeter 'Change the Golden Deer, 

 with bright yellow horns, was once brought there from 

 some part of India ; it was soon removed, being pre- 

 sented to some private person. We would refer this female, 

 though with great hesitation, to Sir T. S. Raffles's Rusa 

 Ubi, noticed in his account of the Rusa, Lin. Transac- 

 tions, vol. xiii., which, according to the natives of Malacca, 

 is of a reddish colour, with unbranched horns, covered with 

 hair to within a short distance of the point. It it also 

 called Rusa Saput. The colours described by ignorant na- 

 tives in a different language, are not a sufficient reason to 

 reject the supposition : certain it is that the Malacca 

 animal here mentioned must belong to the group of 

 Muntjaks. 



The Nepaul Muntjak. (Cervus Moschatus.) In the 

 Oriental Collections, for January, &c, 1798, vol. ii., Sir 

 William Ousley figures an animal under then ame of Musk- 

 deer of Nepaul, from a drawing executed by a native ar- 

 tist, with the following dimensions, communicated by 

 Colonel Ironside : — Length from between the ears to tail 

 two feet four inches ; height two feet ; length of head 

 seven inches ; of the tail six inches and three quarters ; of 

 the tusks two inches and one-eighth ; the hair bristly and 

 thick, two inches long. By the illuminated plate, the animal 

 must be entirely dull fawn colour, with the superior part of 

 the tail alone dark ; the horns placed upon high pedicles 

 are dark, simple, without branches, and pointing to the 

 rear ; the limbs are very slender ; the spurious hoofs small ; 

 the neck rather short. The habitat and character of the 



