SPECIES OP MAMMALIA. 



801. 31. C. Nemorivagus (the Bira Brocket.) About 

 eighteen inches high at the shoulder, robust in struc- 

 ture; head ovine; ears rather round at tip; lachrymary 

 sinus very small ; horns reclined, solid, and pointed, 

 two inches long ; fur gray-brown above ; much white be- 

 neath on belly, limbs, legs, and mouth ; fore-arm convex. 



Gouazoubira, D'Azara. C. Nemorivagus, F. Cuv. Dcs- 

 marests. 



Icon. Nobis from the specimen in the Museum of 

 Frankfort. 



Inhabits solitarily in the swampy forests, and near the 

 sea of Eastern South America. 



Sub-genus X.— Stylocerus. Horns small, with only one 

 anterior snag ; standing upon elevated pedicles ; long canines 

 in most males ; deep suborbital sinus ; small muzzle. 



802. 32. C. Muntjak (the Kijang.) Horns upon pedicles 

 from two and a half to three inches high, covered with the 

 skin, flattened at the summit ; the horns three or four 

 inches long, points turned inwards ; small antler at base, 

 pointing forward ; the pedicles prolonged in the form of ribs 

 down to the nose ; a fold of the skin between the ribs ; body 

 compact ; legs slender ; colour gray-brown, paler beneath ; 

 breast and inside of limbs white, this colour increasing 

 with age ; stature of a roebuck. 



Var ? A deep chestnut-brown colour, but probably only 

 the sign of nonage. 



Cervus Vaginalis, Bodd. Chevreuil des Indes, Allam. 

 Muntjak, or Rib-faced Deer, Vent. 



Icon. Dr. Horsfield's figure. Female, Nobis from Mr. 

 Bullock's Museum. 



Inhabit Java, Sumatra, Ceylon ? 



803. 33. C. Philippinus (Philippine Muntjak.) Spe- 

 cimen, without horns ; pedicles low ; ribs extending only 



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