1900.] MAMMALS Or SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA. 373 



(J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 26, 1894, p. 17) says : — " Cervus equinus, Cuv. 

 Tracks of the Sambhur were seen on Gunong Janeng. This deer 

 is probably common in the Johore jungles, but owing to its sig- 

 nature is seldom seen." Ridley (J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 25, 1894, 

 p. 60) records this species from Pahang, observing : " The Malayan 

 Sambur, apparently the same as the Indian species, but the horns 

 do not attain the same length " ; and (Nat. Science, vi. 1895, 

 p. 164) says : — " The Cervus equinus is common in the Peninsula, 

 and a few still occur in Singapore ; . . . . the young are produced 

 singly, and are coloured like the adult, but with much sorter hair. 

 There are, however, faint traces of light spots on the rump, which 

 disappear after the first week " l . Writing to me on 11th Sept., 

 1899, Ridley says: "Sambar breed regularly in the Singapore 

 Gardens, and they also breed in Government House Park. The 

 young usually have a couple of white spots on the sides near the 

 rump, not very distinct. They are not fully spotted like Axis. I 

 should say certainly that the Sumatran deer is a distinct animal, 

 Cervus hippelaphus. It would not cross with the other deer " 

 (i. e., Peninsula Sambar). In the Museum at Taiping there is a 

 stuffed female from Upper Perak, aud antlers from Upper Ferak, 

 Batang Padang, and Larut. In December 1896 I saw a Sambar 

 stag in a small patch of jungle within about a mile of the town of 

 Taiping. In the Museum at Kuala Lumpor there are specimens 

 from Selangor. The Sambar appears to be numerous in parts of 

 Siam ; we had a stuffed female and two pairs of antlers in the 

 Siamese Museum. 



Distribution. India, Ceylon, Assam, Burma, Siam, Hainan, 

 Malay Peninsula ; probably also parts of China, Formosa, 

 Philippines, Borneo, and Sumatra. 



N.B.— Cervus axis Erxl. The Chital, or Spotted Deer. 



Axis maculata, Cantor, p. 62. 



Cervus axis, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 546. 



Cantor says this deer is called " Rusa Bunga " by the Malays of 

 the Peninsula, and " It is numerous in Keddab, and at present in 

 Pinang. But it did not inhabit Prince of Wales' Island {i.e. 

 Pinang)till one of the last Governors of the late Presidency took 

 the trouble of importing from Bengal some pairs, which were kept 

 in the park adjoining Government House (Suffolk House). When 

 the Presidency of Prince of Wales' Island was abolished, the deer 

 of the quondam Governor's park found their way into the jungle, 

 where they have multiplied to a prodigious extent." Nowadays 

 they have disappeared from Penang, and it seems Cantor must 

 have been mistaken in recording them from Kedah ; the local 

 Malays assured me no spotted deer existed there. 



1 A Sambar born in 1899 in the Ghizeh Zoological Gardens (original locality 

 of parents unknown) had at first a very distinct black vertebral line from 

 between the ears to the tail. 



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