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Rusine Group 



Aocis oryzus, Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeylan. p. 83 (1852). 

 Hyelaphus porcinus pumilio, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxx. part i. 

 p. 258 (1874). 



Cervus minor, Sclater, List Anim. Zool. Gardens, p. 169 (1883), nec Axis 

 minor, Hodgson (1841). 



Characters. — Allied to the preceding, but the antlers larger, the build 

 longer and lower, and the summer pelage of the adult, as well as that of 

 the young, spotted. 



Height at shoulder ranging from about 25 to 29 inches ; build heavy 

 and low, with the legs short ; face comparatively short ; the hairs on the 



back not ringed, but with pale tips. General 

 colour of adult pelage in winter rufous or yellow- 

 ish brown, with a somewhat speckled appearance 

 owing to the pale tips of the hairs ; under-parts 

 much darker ; in summer the upper-parts paler 

 and more or less spotted in the early part of the 

 season with pale brown or white, the spots some- 

 times limited to one or two rows on each side 

 of a dark stripe down the middle of the back ; 

 young fully spotted for about the first six 

 months. Antlers supported on long pedicles, 

 and of the same general type as those of the 

 preceding species — that is to say, with the 

 hinder, or inner, tine of the terminal fork the 

 shorter, and the brow-tine relatively short — but 

 of greater proportional length, being consider- 

 ably longer than the head in fully adult individuals. Skull structurally 

 Hmilar to that of the last, but much less compressed in front of the orbits, 

 and the latter less prominent. Ears rather large, well haired externally, 

 white internally ; tail rather long, whitish beneath ; face-gland small ; 

 metatarsal tuft slightly lighter than the rest of the leg ; no mane on the 

 neck or throat. 



\ pair of antlers of an immature hog-deer in the British Museum 

 arc almost indistinguishable from those of an adult Bavian deer. The 

 following dimensions of the antlers are recorded by Mr. Rowland 

 Ward :— 



Fig. 46. — Head of Hog -Deer. 

 (Rowland Ward, Records of 

 Big Game.) 



