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Rusine Group 



their utmost speed above, in order to prevent his regaining the jungle. 

 He now altered his direction, and turned down once more towards us, but 

 the fallen trees were so thick that the dogs gained rapidly on him. He 

 made one more effort for his life by doubling, but it was too late, and in 

 another moment the dogs and hunters had fairly run him down." 



From this account it would appear that the ground frequented by the 

 Moluccan rusa is of the same general nature as that favoured by the Indian 

 sambar. 



c. Timorese Race — Cervus hippelaphus timoriensis 



Cervus timorensis, de Blainville, Journ. Physique, vol. cxiv. p. 267 (1822). 



Cervus peronii, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, ed. 3, vol. iv. p. 46 (1825). 



Cervus {Rusa) peronii, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. 

 p. 114, v. p. 311 (1827). 



Cervus russa timoriensis, Miiller and Schlegel, Verh. Nederl. Zool. p. 212 

 (1839-44). 



Cervus [Hippelaphus] peroni, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet. Ak. Hand/, for 

 1844, p. 179 (1846). 



Rusa peronii, Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 63 (1850), Cat. Ungulata 

 Brit. Mus. p. 211 (1852), Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 78 (1872); 

 Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxviii. part i. p. 355 (1873), lxx. part i. 



P. 3*7 ( l8 74)- 



Cervus timoriensis, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 903. 



Hippelaphus timoriensis, Heude, Mem. hist. nat. emp. Chinois, vol. iii. 



p. 51 (1896). 



Characters. — In size about the same as the preceding race, but 

 distinguished by the thicker hair on the neck, the more distinctly tufted 

 tail, certain differences in coloration, especially on the face and rump, and 

 the wider antlers. Fitzinger describes the coloration as follows : — The fore- 

 head is gray, the face and the eyebrows are dark blackish brown, the neck, 

 the upper part of the flanks and the greater portion of the chest being of 

 the same tint, the dark brown of the chest forming a long streak between 

 the legs ; the middle of the back is almost black ; the under-parts and inner 

 surface of the thighs are brownish or ochry yellow, passing into dirty 

 white on the hinder portion of the abdomen ; a band above the hoofs 



