i 74 Rusine Group 



the legs blackish brown, with a long narrowish white stripe on the front of 

 the hinder pair. In the female the general colour is paler. 



I only knew this deer from the description, but in addition to the 

 peculiarities of the skull, the small size (height not given), thickly haired 

 ears, and dark dorsal stripe seem to differentiate it from all the foregoing 

 forms. And, from the analogy of the other island types, it seems prima 

 facie probable that the deer of the Calamianes would be a distinct form, 

 especially as the fauna of that island is very distinct from that of the 

 Philippines proper, and more nearly related to that of Palawan and 

 Borneo. 



Distribution. — The island of Calamianes, or Culion, on the western side 

 of the centre of the Philippine group to the north of Palawan. 



5. The Bavian Deer — Cervus kuhli 



Cervus kuh/ii, Muller and Schlegel, Verh. Ges. Nederl. Zool. p. 223 

 (1839-44)- 



Cervus (Hippe/aphus) kuh/ii, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet. Ak. Handl. for 

 1844, p. 179 (1846). 



Rusa kuh/ii, Gray, List Osteal. Brit. Mus. p. 68 (1847), Cat. Ruminants 

 Brit. Mus. p. 79 (1872) ; Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxviii. part i. 



P- 355 ( l8 73)> lxx - part i. p. 300 (1874). 



Cervus kuhli, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 902 ; Ward, Records of 

 Big Game, p. 11 (1896). 



Characters. — A small uniformly coloured brown species, apparently 

 nearly allied to the last, but without a dark line down the back. 



Height at shoulder about 27 inches ; build light and tall ; face com- 

 paratively short. Hair moderately coarse and long ; the hairs on the back 

 ringed. General colour of adult pelage uniformly brown, apparently about 

 the same tint as that on the back of the hog-deer; no dark line on the 

 back, and the under-parts of a rather darker tint than in the latter ; young 

 also uniformly coloured. Antlers not much longer than the head, 

 supported on relatively long pedicles ; their general form similar to those 

 of the Malayan sambar, but much thinner and less rugose, and the brow- 

 tine very short. Skull differing from that of all the preceding forms, with 



