Formosan Sambar 



Formosan, and Szechuan races of the sambar will eventually have to be 

 included under a single sub-specific title. 



Mr. Swinhoe states that the young, when about half-grown, " is reddish 

 brown, with the tail bushy and black, but reddish at its root ; sides of the 

 body paler, and the belly blackish brown ; legs pale towards the hoofs, the 

 latter black ; under surface of tail, abdomen, and inner sides of hind-legs 

 down to middle of shank yellowish white, the breast and belly being 

 blackish brown ; under surface of head and neck mottled whitey-brown ; 



Fig. 40. — Formosan Sambar, from a male at Woburn Abbey. Photographed by the Duchess of Bedford. 



crown of the head, with many of the hairs, tipped with black ; from the 

 occiput a dark line runs down to the base of the tail ; ears blackish brown, 

 tipped and margined with ochreous white, and whitish on their insides." 

 It is not known whether the very young are spotted ; if they are not, there 

 would be a distinction from the preceding race. 



Distribution. — The island of Formosa. The type specimen was pre- 

 sented to the London Zoological Society in 1862, and is now in the British 

 Museum. The society subsequently received three other examples, the 

 last in 1868. Recently two examples apparently referable to this form 

 were imported by a London dealer, one of which was sold to the Paris 

 Zoological Gardens, while the second is living in the park at Woburn 



