450 Asiatic Society. [No. 125. 



" distinguish them with reference to the different shades of their, in general, uniform 

 dark colour, by the epithets Phusro, Ruto, and Kulo, or grey, red, and black, Jarai 

 [ Jerrow.] The Phusro is the largest, being not less than a Horse in size ; and has his 

 dark hide copiously sprinkled with phusro or hoary. The Rato is the next in point of 

 size, and is of a redder hue. The Kalo is the smallest, and of a shining clear black. 

 * * * All but the Kalo species have a subterminal, as well as a brow antler." M. 

 Blainville described his C. niger from a drawing which he saw at the India House, 

 together with certain other drawings upon which he has founded his Capra cossus, C. 

 imberbis, &c, and although these drawings could not then be found when I applied to 

 see them some two or three years ago, I have since met with duplicates of them among 

 those of the late Dr. Buchanan Hamilton, in charge of Dr. Wallich, marked, too, as 

 having been (i. e. the originals) delivered at the India House in 1806, and the names 

 are in Dr. Buchanan Hamilton's own writing which have been adopted by M. Blain- 

 ville, except that the Goats are better styled Capra JEgagrus Cossea and JEgagrus 

 imberbis, being clearly and obviously mere varieties of the common domestic species. 

 The colour of C. niger (Buchanan Hamilton and Blainville) is represented brownish 

 black, and the antlers, in accordance with Mr. Hodgson's description, have no subter- 

 minal branch or tine ; indeed they so nearly resemble the figure in the Society's 

 Journal, X. 722, that it might be supposed that both were drawn from the same 

 individual. 



With respect to the C. equinus of Colonel H. Smith, (which is not the Malayan spe- 

 cies so denominated by Baron Cuvier,) if it really differ from the Sambur, it is proba- 

 bly the C. Leschenaultii of Baron Cuvier (' Ossemens Fossiles', IV. 32.) I have exa- 

 mined and possess figures of the frontlet of the identical individual described and figured 

 from life by Colonel Smith, which is now preserved in the Museum of the London 

 Royal College of Surgeons. The antlers measure two feet four inches in length, 

 and eight inches round above the burr, with a brow-process fourteen inches long ; 

 their widest portion apart is twenty-two inches and a half, the tips returning to twenty 

 inches, and those of the upper tine to fourteen inches; they have a differently granu- 

 lated sui'face from ordinary Sambur and Jerrow antlers, being angulated and prickly 

 instead of smooth to the feel, however coarsely tuberculated may be the others ; and 

 the tail of the animal is represented in Colonel Smith's figure to be slender and not 

 bushy, in lieu of presenting that appearance which in the others has been compared 

 to the tail of a docked horse that has been neglected* ; the caudal disk, likewise, 

 would appear to be more conspicuously developed, though it is doubtful whether 

 either of these characters is of constant or normal occurrence : still it is worthy of 

 remark that Colonel Sykes, in his Catalogue of the Mammalia of the Dukhun, (' Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoological Society,' 1831, 104,) considers the large Rusa Stag which 

 " abounds about the ghats of Dukhun and in Khandesh as no doubt the same as 

 the Malayan Rusa figured in Griffith's work. It wants the size of the C. Aristotelis 

 [Hippelaphus] of Bengal, and is not so dark in colour" ; and it should be observed 

 that C. Leschenaultii of Cuvier was received from the Coromandel Coast. But Mr. 

 Walter Elliot, in his recent Catalogue of Mammalia in the Southern Mahratta Coun- 

 try, ( c Madras Journal,' No. XXV, 220), asserts, that " there is only one species of 



* This difference might depend, however, upon the animal being then, perhaps, shedding its coat. 





