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Rusine Group 



general constant, the form of antler described above is not absolutely so, 

 Mr. Blanford possessing a Burmese skull in which the hind tine of the 

 terminal fork is the longer on one side, and the front tine on the other ; 

 but even in the former case the antler is not of the type of that of C. hipp- 



elaphus. 



More precise information is required with regard to the coloration of 

 the young. In the writings of Messrs. Jerdon and Brooke all the sambarare 



credited with having unspotted young; 

 and this view was followed by Mr. Blan- 

 ford. A correspondent of the Asian 

 newspaper, writing about the year 1892 

 or 1893, mentioned, however, that in 

 Cachar sambar always produce spotted 

 young, and I have some reason to believe 

 that this is also the case in Burma. In 

 1893 Mr- C. Hose described a very young 

 sambar fawn from Mount Dulit, in North 

 Borneo, which he regarded as distinguish- 

 able from the present form on account of 

 being spotted, and to which he applied 

 the name C. brookei. In this specimen, 

 which is now in the British Museum, 

 the general colour is foxy red, with faint 

 yellowish spots on the hind-quarters ; the 

 Fig. 39 .-Frontlct and Antlers of Malayan tail and a streak down the back being 



Sambar. From a Burmese specimen in black. Another fawn ill the Museum, 



the British Museum. (Rowland Ward, r , 



Records of Big Game.) also sent bv Mr - Hose from Borneo, and 



labelled C. equinus, is of approximately the 

 same age, and shows a few very faint traces of spots on the hind-quarters. 

 In the skin of a third and somewhat older fawn in the Museum, likewise 

 -cut bv the same gentleman from Borneo, the spots are wanting, and the 

 head and neck have begun to assume the adult grayish colour. Probably 

 the spots have disappeared. A spotted fawn was born at Woburn Abbey 

 in January 1 898. 



Mr. Hose's original description of his presumed species is as follows, 

 viz. : — 



