40 HOLLlSTER. 



Family CERVID^. 



Genus RUSA Smith. 



1827. Rusa H. Smith, Griffith's Cuvier, 5, 309. Type. — Cervus equinus 

 CuviEE. 



Deer of varying size, from small to large, with rounded ant- 

 lers, only slightly curved, with brown-tine, and beam simple 

 forked at extremity. Females without horns. 



Rusa alfredi (Sclater). 



1870. Cervus alfredi Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 381. 



Type locality. — Philippines (received from Manila). Cebu 

 (Elera) ; Guimaras (Sanchez) ; Leyte (Lydekker) ; Masbate 

 (Sanchez) ; Negros (Elera) ; Panay (Elera) ; Samar (Lydek- 

 ker) . 



Rusa culionensis (Elliot). 



1897. Cervus culionensis Elliot, Field Mus. Pub. Zool., 1, No. 7 (not 

 paged), June. 



Type locality. — Culion Island. Cuhon (Elliot). 



Rusa nigricans (Brooke). 



1877. Cervus nigricans Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1877), part 

 1, 57, June 1. 



Type locality. — Philippines. Basilan (Lydekker). 



Rusa pliiiippinus (Smith). 



1827. Cervus philippinus SMITH, Griffith's Anim. Kingd., 4, 147. 

 1850. Rusa philippinus Gray, Knowsley Menag., 63. 



Type locality. — Philippine Islands, probably Luzon. Luzon 

 (Lydekker). 



Believed by Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, 158, to be the same 

 as Cerv7is mariannus Desmarest, 1820, described from Ladrone 

 Islands. 



Rusa steerli (Elliot). % 



1896. Cervus steerii Elliot, Field Col. Mus. Pub. Zool., 1, No. 3, 

 72, May. 



Type locality. — Basilan Island. Basilan (Elliot). 



[Rusa tavlstoctcl (Lydekker). 



1900. Cerv2is {Rusa) tavistocki Lydekkee, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 VII, 6, 205. 



Type locality. — Unknown; "probably Philippines." Probably 

 synonym of one of the following species described by Heude.] 



The following forty-one species of deer from the Philippine 

 Islands have been named by P. M. Heude in the Memoires con- 

 cemant I'Histoire Naturelle de I'Empire Chinois. 



