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as also the ringed hairs of the back and certain peculiarities of coloration, 

 but the fauna of Java differs so remarkably from that of the other Malayan 

 Islands and Peninsula, that on this ground alone there would be very strong 

 reason for separating the rusa as a species. Although used by Horsfield 

 and others for Indian varieties of the sambar, 1 the name hippelaphus has by 



Fig. 41. — Skull and Antlers of Javan Rusa. From a specimen in the British Museum. 



most other writers been restricted to the Javan animal. Whether it was 

 applied by Cuvier to Javan specimens, I have no means of knowing, but 

 have retained it in the usually accepted sense. In the case of specimens of 

 which the locality is unknown, I find some difficulty in assigning them to 

 their proper race, and a good series of examples with authenticated localities 



1 See Blanford, Ftiuna Brit. India — Mamm. p. 54.5. 



