Timorese Rusa 



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being also of the same colour ; the lips and inner surface of the ear are 

 white, as is also the inner surface of the buttocks ; the tail-tuft being dark 

 blackish-brown. In the males a whitish streak runs from above the eye 

 across the cheek to the side of the neck. 



This deer has only once been exhibited in the London Zoological 

 Gardens, a pair having been presented by Captain L. Brayley in 1864. 



Fig. 45. — -Undetermined Rusine Stag at Woburn Abbey. From a photograph by the 



Duchess of Bedford. 



Distribution. — The islands of Timor, Semao, and Kambing, forming the 

 eastern extremity of the Sumatra-Java line. The observations with regard 

 to a possible introduction by man given under the heading of the last race, 

 apply equally in this case. 



Undetermined Specimens 



Here may be mentioned a pair of small dark-coloured rusine deer 

 living in the menagerie at Woburn Abbey, whose antlers, as shown in the 

 accompanying photograph, differ markedly from normal specimens of any 



