254. KIIS1N.E. 



The first on the list is one that makes some approach in the number 

 of its branches to the true deer, and in aspect is intermediate between 

 Cervus and Rusa. 



Gen. KuoEE\TJS, Hodgson. 



Char. — Horns moderately slender, smooth, pale, large, with one basal 

 process, no median ; the summit in maturity much branched ; muzzle point- 

 ed ; canines in the males only. 



219. Rucervus Duvaucellii. 



Cervus apud Ccvieb. — Blyth, Cat. 487. — F. Cuvibr, Mammif. 2, pi. 

 104. — C. elaphoides and C. hahraiya, Hodgson. — C euryceros, Knowsley 

 Menagerie. — Barasingha, H. — Baraya, of the Nepal Terai ; also Mdhd of 

 many parts at the foot of the Himalayas. — Jhinkdr, in Kyarda Doon. 

 Potiya haran, at Monghyr.. — Goen or Goenjak (the male) in Central India ; 

 Gaoni, the female. — Swamp-deer of many Europeans, generally Bara- 

 singha of sportsmen in Bengal, Oude, &c. 



The Swamp Deee. 



Descr. — Horns very large and moderately stout, curving well outwards ; 

 pale, with basal antler, and a more or less branched summit, the lower 

 branches sometimes simulating a median tine. Form altogether lighter 

 than that of the Samber, especially the neck and fore-quarter ; hair finer 

 and more woolly ; tail moderately short. Color dull yellowish-brown in 

 winter, bright rufous-brown or chesnut in summer, paler below and inside 

 the limbs ; white under the tail. The female is lighter, of a pale dun or 

 whity-brown color. The young are spotted. 



Length, nearly 6 feet; tail 8 to 9 inches ; height 11 hands to 11^ (44 to 

 46 inches). 



Average length of horns' 3 feet, or a little more. Fourteen and fifteen 

 points are not uncommon in old stags, and I have seen them with seventeen. 



This fine deer is found in the forest land at the foot of the Himala- 

 yas, from the Kyarda Doon to Bhotan, and is very abundant in Assam, 

 inhabiting the islands and churrs of the Berrampooter, extending down the 

 river in suitable spots to the eastern Sunderbuns. It is also stated to 

 occur near Monghyr, and thence extends sparingly through the great forest 

 tract of Central India. It is rare to the south of the Nerbudda, but it 

 has to my knowledge been killed between the Nerbudda and Nagporc, 



