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colour is a bright yellowish-red, darker in the upper parts of the 
back ; the fore legs from the shoulder downwards and the lower part 
of the hind legs, dark bluish-brown ; anterior parts of the face from 
the muzzle to between the eyes, brown—a blackish line running up 
the inside of each frontal ridge; chin, throat, inside of hind legs, 
and under surface of tail white. The female has a black bristly 
tuft of hair on the spot from which the pedicles of the antlers of the 
male grow. The average length of the male, according to Jerdon, 
is 34 feet, tail 7 inches, height 26 to 28 inches. The female is a 
little smaller. The specimens from Java, Sumatra, and Borneo are 
Fic. 126.—The Muntjac (Cervulus muntjac). 
of larger size than those from the mainland, and may possibly be of 
distinct species or race. 
C. lacrymans of Milne-Edwards, or Sclater’s Muntjac of Swin- 
hoe, from Moupin, and near Hangchow, China. 
C. reevesi, a very small species from southern China. 
Subsequently the name C. crinifrons has been applied to a Munt- 
jac from Ningpo, China, readily distinguished from all other species 
by its bushy forehead and long tail. Another species from Tenas- 
serim has been described as C. fea. ; 
Small Deer from the European Pliocene have been provisionally 
referred to Cervulus, but the so-called Prox furcatus, of the Miocene 
is now included in Paleomeryz. : 
Elaphodus..—Antlers very small, unbranched, supported on long, 
1 Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Arch. du Muséum, vol. vii. Bull. p. 93 (1872). 
