156 Rusine Group 



Abbey, and shows all the characteristics of the type. It is the latter that 

 forms the subject of Fig. 40. 



Habits. — It is to the present race that the Chinese apply the name of 

 four-eyed deer, on account of its power of everting the large face-glands. 

 Mr. Swinhoe states that " in the central ranges of Formosa, near Mount 

 Morrison, this brown deer is very common ; and on a visit I paid to the 

 wild tribes of these parts in February 1866, I found them hunting the deer 

 with dogs. A place is cleared in the forest, where a party of men hide 

 armed with matchlocks ; the dogs yelp after the deer and drive them into 

 the open, where the hidden sportsmen get easy shots at them." There 

 appears to be nothing recorded as to the breeding habits. 



d. Szechuan Race — Cervus unicolor dejeani 



Rusa Jejcani, Pousargues, Bull. Mas. Paris, 1896, no. 1, p. 2. 



Cervus dejeani, Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 22 (1896). 



Characters. — Described as being very similar to the Formosan race, but 

 as large as the Indian sambar ; the colour being a more sombre brown than 

 in the latter, and the tail longer and more bushy. It is stated to be in all 

 probability only a larger continental form of the Formosan sambar, and 

 would accordingly appear indistinguishable from the Malayan sambar, 

 with which it is not compared by its describer. In the type and only 

 known specimen, which is preserved in the Paris Museum, the length of 

 the antlers is 30^, inches, and the basal circumference 5^ inches. As 

 already said, it is highly probable that this and the two preceding forms 

 should be classed as one sub-species. 



Distribution. — The province of Szechuan, North-Western China, about 

 30 north latitude. The distribution is interesting, as being the most 

 northerly recorded for the sambar, or indeed for any member of the 

 rusine group. The habitat serves in some degree to connect the dis- 

 tributional area of the Malayan with that of the Formosan race ; and it is 

 probable that this race will be found to intergrade with the former in the 

 Yunnan district. 



