692 On Various Genera of the Ruminants. [July, 



6. Genus Stylocerus or Stilthorn or Muntjac. 



Daria-Mriga. Ratwa, Kaker. 



Horns in males only, small, raised on high hairy pedicles, and hav- 

 ing only one snag which is basal. 



Females with bristley tufts ending in knobs instead of horns. 

 Eye-pits very large and extremely mobile. 



Facial creases, large, mobile, glandular, placed along inner side of 

 horn pedicles towards their very forward salient bases. 



Feet-pits large, in hind feet only. 



No groin-pits. 



Mammae four. 



Canines in males only? large, trenchant, and exserted, as 



in the Musks. 

 No calcic gland nor tuft. 



Types 1 sp. Vaginalis or the Kijang of Indian Islands. 

 2 sp. Ratwa or the Kaker of Indian Continent. 



Habitat, general in Indian mountains and in forests at their bases. 

 Never elsewhere. Seldom seen above 7000 feet in the Sub-Himalayas. 



The Muntjacs are not gregarious though 6 or 8 are occasionally found 

 together. They prefer the dells to the tops, and the close to the open 

 cover. Copse or brushwood of the Chinese bambu is a favourite retreat. 

 They bark all the year but particularly in winter when the males are 

 wanton. January, February is the common rutting, and June, July the 

 common breeding season : the gestation being of 6 months ; but they 

 breed occasionally at any season though only once a year, and have one 

 or two young at a birth. 



The male's horns fall in May and are perfect again in August. Intes- 

 tines : male 61 feet; whereof the small are 44 and large 17 feet. 

 Ccecum 15 inches by 2^, and 9 inches of gut below it of same size. 

 Rest, \ to f inch wide. Intestines ; female, 49 feet ; whereof small 

 34 feet and great 15. Ccecum 12 inches by 2, 12 inches of gut below 

 it of like diameter. 



MOSCIIIDCE. THE MUSKS. 



Kasturadi. Mushkddi.* 

 Feet cloven : no horns : front teeth 8 below, none above. Molar 



* See note in p. 688. 



