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Rusine Group 



i. The Sambar — Cervus unicolor 



Cervus unicolor, Bechstein, Allgem. Uebers. vierfus. Thiere, vol. i. p. 112 

 (1799); Blantbrd, Fauna Brit. India — Mamm. p. 543 ( 1 89 1 ) ; Ward, Records 

 of Big Game, p. 3 (1896). 



Cervus albicornis, Bechstein, loc. cit. (1799). 



Cervus niger, de Blainville, Bull. Soc. philom. Paris, 18 16, p. 76. 



Cervus aristote/is, Cuvier, Ossetnens Fossiles, ed. 3, vol. iv. p. 503 

 (1825) ; Sclater, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vii. p. 350 (1871) ; Brooke, Proc. 

 Zoo/. Soc. 1878, p. 901 ; Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus. part ii. 

 p. 103 (1885) ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. part ii. p. 176 (1891). 



Cervus leschenaultii, Cuvier, op. cit. p. 506 (1825). 



Cervus (Rusa) unicolor, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. 

 p. 108, v. p. 316 (1827). 



Cervus (Rusa) aristotelis, H. Smith, op. cit. pp. 1 10, 310 (1827). 



Cervus jarai, Hodgson, Gleanings in Science, vol. iii. p. 321 (1831). 



Cervus heterocervus, Hodgson, Joum. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. x. p. 721 

 (1841). 



Rusa jarya, Hodgson, op. cit. p. 914 (1841). 

 Rusa nepalensis, Hodgson, loc. cit. ( 1 841 ) . 

 Rusa heterocervus, Hodgson, loc. cit. (1 841). 



Rusa aristotelis, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 179 (1843), ^ at - 

 Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 205 (1852), Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 76 

 (1872) ; Jerdon, Mamm. India, p. 256 (1867) ; Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, 

 vol. lxx. part i. p. 279 (1874) ; Sterndale, Mamm. India, p. 503 (1884). 



Cervus Hippe/ap/u/s aristote/is, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet. Ak. Hand/, for 

 1844, p. 178 (1846). 



Cervus (Hippelaphus) niger, Sundevall, op. cit. p. 183 (1846). 



Cervus (Hippelaphus) leschenaulti, Sundevall, loc. cit. (1846). 



Cervus (Hippelaphus) unicolor, Sundevall, loc. cit. (1846). 



Rusa aristotelis nigra, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxx. part i. p. 284 



(1874). 



Rusa aristotelis leschenaulti, Fitzinger, op. cit. p. 286 (1874). 

 Rusa aristote/is unicolor, Fitzinger, op. cit. p. 287 (1874). 

 Rusa aristotelis heteroceros, Fitzinger, op. cit. p. 289 (1874). 



