190 Rucervine Group 



Rucervus duvaucelii, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxviii. part i. p. 356 

 (1873), Ixx. part i. p. 324 (1874). 



Axis dimorpha, Fitzinger, op. cit. Ixx. p. 272 (1874). 



Cervus duvauce/i, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 905 ; W. L. Sclater, 

 Cat. Mamm. In J. Mus. part ii. p. 179 (1891) ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. 

 India — Ma mm. p. 538 ( 1 89 1 ) ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 13 (1896). 



Rucervus duvaucelli, Sterndale, Mamm. India, p. 510 (1884). 



Plate XIV 



Characters. — Height at shoulder from 3 feet 8 inches to 3 feet 10 inches ; 

 build stout and tall ; hair moderately fine, and somewhat woolly ; muzzle 



long and slender. Antlers smooth and 

 flattened, with a long brow-tine rising 

 almost at right angles to the beam ; above 

 the brow-tine the beam remains undivided 

 for about half its length, when it splits 

 into a regular fork, of which each branch 

 is usually again simply forked, although, 

 as in the specimen shown in Fig. 51, the 

 outer branch may be much longer than 

 the inner one, and bear three or more 

 tines ; small snags are frequently developed 

 on the upper surface of the brow-tine, 

 although sports at its junction with the 

 beam are seldom seen, and the brow-tine 

 is never forked. Metatarsal gland and tuft 

 wanting. General colour of pelage in 

 summer bright rufous brown, frequently, 

 or usually, with a broad brown line down 

 the middle of the back, bordered by a line 



Fig. 51. — Side view of Frontlet and Antlers 



of Swamp-Deer. From a specimen in or white spots on each side, and more or 

 the British Museum. ] ess f a j nt traces of other spots ; the throat, 



inner side of the thighs, and under-parts 

 white or whitish, and the lower surface of the tail invariably pure white ; 

 in winter the upper-parts yellowish brown, and the under-parts paler ; in 

 hinds the colour is lighter at all seasons, and the young are fully spotted 



