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general colour of the upper-parts is speckled rufous yellowish brown, 

 passing into uniform sambar-like brown on the flanks, where the hairs are 

 not ringed, and speckling is consequently absent. The face is short ; the 

 ears are of moderate size, and sparsely haired externally, where they are 

 white on the outer side of the base. The inner surface of the ears, a line 

 on each side of the nostrils, the lower lip, chin, under-parts, and the inside 

 of the thighs and buttocks are white or whitish ; the lower portion of the 

 legs being whitish brown. The antlers differ from the pair belonging to 



Fig. 43. — Moluccan Rusa. From a photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. 



the Javan race in the Museum, figured on page 163, by the circumstance that 

 the front tine of the terminal fork arises markedly from the outer side of the 

 beam, instead of from the front ; but I have no means of knowing how far 

 this difference is constant. 



Distribution. — Celebes and the islands of Boru, Batchian, and Amboina 

 in the Molucca group ; all these islands lying between Borneo and New 

 Guinea, and having a fauna with a certain number of Australian types. 



Sir Victor Brooke writes as follows concerning the occurrence of the 

 rusa in these islands and Timor : — " Deer resembling Cervus hippclaphus in 



