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Animals of India, etc. p. 232, 1907, Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. 

 Mils. p. 38, 1913 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 63, 1910, 

 ed. 7, p. 65, 1914; Gairdner, J. Siam. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. i, 

 p. 117, 1914. 



Busa unicolor equinus, Allen, Bull. Amir. Miis. Naf. Hist. vol. xxii, 

 . p. 467, 1906. 



Typical locality Sumatra. 



Co-types (figured by Cuvier, ojj. cit) apparently not in 

 Paris Museum. 



Nearly as large as Indian representatives of the typical 

 race, but the antlers generally shorter and thicker, with the 

 hind, or inner, tine of the terminal fork much shorter than 

 the front or outer one, and rising as a spur from the inner 

 hind margin of the beam, of which the hind tine forms the 

 direct continuation, and the brow-tine in most cases rela- 

 tively longer ; general colour darker, approaching black or 

 slaty grey in old stags ; usually a light ring round the eye ; 

 ears rather smaller, with distinct white margins ; legs 

 frequently light-coloured ; tail more bushy ; face compara- 

 tively long and straight ; new-born young, at least frequently, 

 faintly spotted on hind-quarters, with the general colour 

 foxy red, and the tail and a line down the back blackish or 

 black. Good antlers measure from about 16 to 30 inches 

 along the outer curve, with a basal girth of from 4^ to 7 

 inches, and a tip-to-tip interval of from 5i to 24^ inches. 



The range is provisionally taken to include most of the 

 large sambar of all the Malay countries, with the exception 

 of Java, and also to comprise those of Assam and Kachar, 

 where these deer are known to produce spotted young, and 

 also of Hainan. It is, however, quite probable that there 

 may be a number of local races. If this prove to be the 

 case, the name vialaccensis is available for the Malay, and 

 camhojensis for the Cambodian form. 



61. 4. 12. 18 (1463, g). Frontlet and antlers, immature. 

 Cambodia ; collected by Monsieur Mouhot. Type of Ccrvulus 

 cambojensis. Purchased, 1861. 



62. 8. 18. 22. Pair of antlers. Laos Mountains, Cam- 

 bodia; same collector. Purchased, 1862. 



67. 5. 20. 3-4 (1781, y-r). Two frontlets, with antlers. 



Assam. Purchased {Cutter), 1867. 



67. 5. 20. 6. Skull and antlers. Assam. Same history. 



