1847.] On Various Genera of the Ruminants. G89 



Mufle* large, covering the front of upper lip. 



Eye-pits moderate and moderately mobile. S-shaped. 



Feet-pits large in all 4 ? feet. 



Groin-pits none. 



Calcic gland and tuft posterior and external. 



Teats four. 



Canines in males only. 



Types, Cervus elaphus of Europe. 2, Cervus affinis of Saul forest or 

 Mul Barah Sinha, and 3, Giana or Cervus wallichii of Tibet. These 

 animals are further characterised by a very short tail, a large disc or 

 pale space round the tail, and no proper mane. The Indian ones are 

 confined to vast primitive forests on the plain. I have no notes of 

 their intestines, or breeding. 



2. Genus Ru cervus. 

 Baraiya or Barah Sinha. 



Horns in males only, with one basal snag and no central one, but 

 their summits many-branched as in the true Stags or Elaphus. 



Mufle large, covering front of upper lip. 



Eye-pits moderate, mobile moderately. 



Feet-pits ? 



Groin-pits none. 



Calcic gland and tuft ? 



Teats four. 



Canines in males only. 



Type, Cervus elaphoides vel du vaucelli. 



This is the Baraiya or Barah Sinha. It inhabits reedy marshes and 

 islands of great rivers along the whole Eastern and Northern skirt of 

 Bengal and Hindosthan. Never enters the mountains or forests. 

 Herds enormous in the Islands of the Brahmaputra. These animals 

 are further distinguished, like the true stags, by the absence of the 

 heavy mane of the Rusas, and by a short tail which however has no 

 true caudal disc and is longer than in the Stags proper ? 



3. Genus Procervus. 

 Gonr or Gower and Ghos. 



Horns in males only, small, smooth, greatly divergent, and much 

 bent in the beam, like Bos, and furnished with only one ? snag which 

 is basal and forward. Another subterminal ? 



* See N. B. at end for explanation of all these organs. 



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