ioi Muntjacs 



Characters. — This species was named on the evidence of molar teeth, 

 which present a considerable resemblance to those of C. duvauce/i. The 

 skull provisionally assigned to it is likewise very similar to that of the 

 latter, while the antlers probably belonging to the same form are apparently 

 intermediate between those of C. duvauceli and C. eldi. Even if the skull 

 and antlers belong to a species distinct from that to which the teeth 

 pertained, they serve to indicate the existence in the Siwaliks of a member 

 of the rucervine group. 



Distribution. — India during the Pliocene period. 



IV. The Muntjacs — Genus Cervulus 



Cervu/us, de Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1 8 1 6, p. 77 ; Gray, 

 Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 217 (1852), Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 93 

 (1872) ; Brooke, Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1878, p. 898 ; Riitimeyer, Abh. schweiz. 

 pal. Ges. vol. viii. p. 23 (1881). 



Stylocerus, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v. p. 319 (1827), 

 as a sub-genus. 



Prox, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 135 ; Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, 

 vol. lxviii. part i. p. 361 (1873), lxxix. part i. p. 40 (1879). 



Muntjacus, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 173 (1843). 



Characters. — Lateral metacarpal bones as in Cervus, that is represented 

 only by their upper extremities. Antlers not exceeding half the length of 

 the head, with a short brow-tine and an unbranched beam, supported on 

 long bony pedicles, continued downwards as convergent ridges on the 

 forehead of the skull ; in the female tufts of bristly hair and small projec- 

 tions in the position of the antlers. Typically a small skin-gland on the 

 inner side of each frontal ridge. Muzzle with a large naked portion, 

 extending up between the nostrils, with the upper border of the portion 

 between the same slightly convex ; ears rather small ; tail long, thin, and 

 pointed ; face long. Pelage of adult uniformly coloured above, spotted in 

 young. No metatarsal or tarsal glands and tufts. In the skull the gland- 

 pit very large and deep, and the unossified vacuity of moderate extent ; 

 hice-gland large. Median hoofs moderate, lateral hoofs generally small 

 and rudimentary, and the phalangeal bones of their digits entirely wanting. 



