24 CATALOGUE OF UKGULATES 



701, aa. Sknll, with large antlers. From an old skin. 



No liistory. 

 701,/. Skull, female. No liistory. 



K.— Muntiacus muntjak aureus. 



Cervus aureus, H. Smith, Ch-ifitWs Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, 

 p. 148, 182Y. 



Cervus (Stylocerus) aureus, H. Smith, op. cit. vol. v, p. 320, 1827 



(locality wrong). 

 Stylocerus aureus, Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. iii, p. 185, 



1835. 

 Cervus albipes, Wagner, Schreber's Smigtliiere, Suppl. vol. iv, p. 294, 



1844 ; Schinz, Synop. Mamm. vol. ii, p. 549, 1844. 



Cervulus aureus, Jerdon, Mamin. India, p. 264, 1867, partim. 



Cervulus tamulicus. Gray, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 94, 1872, 

 Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 165, 1873. 



Muntiacus aureus, Wroughton, M.S. 1914. 



Typical locality not definitely known, Imt some part of 

 Southern India. 



Size medium ; general colour ochery buff (clay-colour 

 tinged with ochery), darker on middle of back, with the 

 nuchal grizzled area extending behind the shoulders on 

 to the back ; under-parts paler ; hairs greyish white at 

 base. 



Typical locality of C. tamulicus Dekhan ; C. alhipcs was 

 stated by its describer to be from " Bombay and Poona." 



701, b. Skull, with antlers in velvet. Dekhan. Type of 

 C. tamuKcuf;. Presented hy Col. W. H. Sykes, about 1842. 



L.— Muntiacus muntjak malabaricus, subsp. n. 



Muntiacus malabaricus, Wroughton, M.S. 1914. 



This race is to be attributed to Mr. Wroughton, by whose 

 courtesy the publication of his description has been permitted 

 here. 



Typical locality Nagarhol, Coorg, Southern India; the 

 range includes the Kanara and ]\Ialabar coast. 



" Generally similar to M. m. aureus, but the size larger 

 than in either that race or M. m. vaginalis and the prevalent 

 colour deep chestnut (between raw sienna and tawny), with 



