MAMMALIA. PECORA. Deer. 301 



Inhabits the marfhes of Borneo and Ceylon. — Is as large as a Horfe, with whitifh horns : The 

 animals of this variety are called Elanden, or Elks, by the Dutch, and Mejangan Banjee, or Water 

 Stags, by the Javanefe and Malays. 



Some fpecies of Deer, probably one or other of the varieties of Axis, are found, along with Oxen, 

 Buffalos, Goats, Hogs, Dogs, Cats, and Rats, in Mindanao, Gilolo, Mandioly, Batchian, and the Pa- 

 puas iflands. The Axis has the fenfe of fmelling in a very nice degree, infomuch that, when tame, 

 they will not eat bread which has been breathed on ; they agree in this circumftance with feveral o- 

 ther animals of the fame genus, and of the Antilope, and Goat kinds. 



g;r 7. Porcine Deer. — 8. Ctrvus porcimis. 10. 



Has flender three-forked horns ; the upper parts of the body are brown, and the under 

 parts afh coloured. Schreber, v. t. ccli. Perm. hift. of quad. n. 49. D°. Syn. n. 42. t. 8. f. 2. 



Inhabits India and Borneo. — The body is thick and clumfy, from which the animal has got the 

 name of Hog Deer ; but the legs are line and flender ; the body and head meafure three and a half 

 feet long, is two feet two inches high at the fhoulder, and two inches higher at the rump ; the tail is 

 eight inches long. It is caught in pit-falls, covered with fome flight materials. 



656 ,- /3. Spotted Porcine Deer. — C. porcinus maculatus. 



Has flightly three-forked horns, the firft fnag being very near the head ; the body is of 

 a yellowifli colour marked with white fpots. 



Hog-Stag. Sm. Buff. iv. 1 1 1. pi. liii. N°. 2. 



Is-faid to have been brought from the Cape of Good Hope. — This feems much the fame with the 

 Porcine Deer of Mr Pennant, defcribed above, except the colour, and the fpots : The fize is very 

 much the fame; the noftrils are black, with a blackifh band at the corners of the mouth; the colour" 

 of the head is mixed with grey, the fore-head and fides of the eyes being brown ; the ears are very- 

 large, garnifhed within with white hairs, and on the outfide covered with froooth brown hair, mixed 

 with yellow ; the top of the back is brownifh ; the tail is. yellow above, and white below ; and the 

 legs are of a dark, or blackifh, brown colour. 



<gry 8. Muntjac. — 1 1. Cervus Muntjac. 12. 



Has three longitudinal ribs extending from the horns to the eyes ; and a tulk hanging 

 out from each fide of the upper jaw. Schreber, v. t. cclhv 



Rib-faced Deer. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 50. 



Inhabits Java and Ceylon. — This fpecies is fomewhat lefs than the Roe, and refembles the Porcine 

 Deer in fhape. The horns are placed on a boney procefs, which rifes three inches above the fkull, 

 and is covered with hair * ; they are three-forked, the uppermoft fnag or branch being hooked. In; 



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* From not being thoroughly acquainted with the Englifh language, Dr Gmelin applies the hairy 

 covering of the boney procefs, as defcribed by Mr Pennant, to the horns themfelves, and fays that: 

 they are covered with hair. — T. 



