154 Rusine Group 



from Assam in the British Museum showing all the characteristics of the 

 present race ; and the aforesaid occurrence of sambar with spotted young in 

 Cachar shows that the form from that district does not belong to the 

 typical Indian race. 



In respect to habits this race probably shows no important difference 

 from the preceding. 



c. Formosan Race — Cervus unicolor swinhoei 



Rusa swinhoii, Sclater, Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1862, p. 152, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. 

 vii. p. 333 ( 1 87 1 ) ; Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 77 (1872). 



Cervus swinhoii, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 901 ; W. L. Sclater, 

 Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. part ii. p. 178 (1891). 



Rusa swinhoei, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxx. part i. p. 298 (1874). 



Cervus swinhoei, Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 8 (1896). 



Characters. — Very closely allied to the preceding, from which it may be 

 distinguished by its shorter head and concave profile, the relatively longer 

 legs, and the undermentioned differences in colour ; the stature being some- 

 what less. In the winter pelage the general colour of the upper-parts is 

 uniform reddish black-brown, the head and ears being reddish yellow- 

 brown, and the upper surface of the nose having a V-shaped blackish brown 

 mark reaching to the eyes ; the under surface of the body is nearly as dark 

 as the back, but the inner side of the thighs and the whole lower legs are 

 brownish or whitish yellow, and the bushy tail is black all round. In the 

 summer coat the general colour is light yellowish red-brown, darker in 

 front than behind, and lightest on the under surface. The antlers are of 

 the type of those of the Malayan race, but smaller, the longest recorded 

 length being just under 20 inches ; and the skull is very similar to that 

 of the Luzon race. 



In his description Mr. Sclater remarked that this deer was very similar 

 to the Malayan race, from which he was unable to point out distinctive 

 differences, having never seen an adult of the latter. A short face and 

 concave profile are stated by Sir Victor Brooke to be characteristics of red 

 and fallow deer living under unfavourable conditions ; and in the case of 

 the present form the same features may be due to the comparatively small 

 area of its habitat. Indeed, it seems highly probable that the Malayan, 



