Javan Rusa 165 



apparently referable to the Malayan sambar. The species has not been 

 exhibited in the London Zoological Gardens since the year 1877. 



Two stags apparently belonging to the present race now living in the 

 menagerie at Woburn Abbey differ from the description given above in 

 that the colour of the winter pelage is reddish tawny, with no pure white 

 on the under-parts. As they have the large antlers characteristic of the race, 

 this variation in colour may be analogous to that occurring in the larger 

 races of sambar. As shown in the accompanying photogravure, they have 



Fig. 42. — Javan Rusa, from a Male at Woburn Abbey. Photographed by the Duchess of" Bedford. 



a well-developed mane on the neck and throat, and a dark terminal tail-tuft. 

 In the stag figured by Miiller the general colour is similar to that of the 

 specimen of the Moluccan race represented in plate xii. " Rusa," it may 

 be observed, is the Malay term for all deer, and is consequently applied by 

 the natives alike to the Malayan sambar and the present form, to which 

 latter it may conveniently be restricted in natural history. 



Distribution. — Java, introduced into Mauritius, and, it is said, Borneo. 

 As indicating the extent to which the Malays have introduced deer into the 

 various islands they frequent, it is interesting to note that on Horsburgh 



