MALAYAN SAMBAR OR EQUINE DEER 



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Frontlet and Antlers of Malayan Sambar. 

 Drawn from a Burmese specimen in the British Museum. 



MALAYAN SAMBAR or EQUINE DEER (Cervus unicolor equinus). 



This local race is nearly as large as the Indian sambar, but the 

 antlers are generally shorter and thicker, with the hinder or inner tine 

 of the terminal fork much shorter than the front one, and arising as a 

 spur from the inner hind margin of the beam, of which the front tine 

 forms the direct continuation ; the brow tine also generally longer. 

 General colour of coat of adult darker, usually a light ring round the 

 eyes, the ears smaller, often with a white margin, and the tail very 

 bushy. Young spotted. The distributional area extends from Assam 

 and Cachar through Burma and the Malay Peninsula to Siam, Hainan, 

 Borneo, and perhaps Sumatra. 



