CEEVUS MUNTJAK. 
Cervas Muntjak, der Montjak, Zimmerman Geographische Gesckickte des Me?is- 
clieti und der vierfUssigen Tliiere, II. Band, p. 131. Leipzig, 1780. (From the 
communication of Pennant.) 
Cervus Muntjak, Boddaeri Elm. anim. I. p. 136, Rotterdam, 1785. 
Cervus vaginalis, id. id. 
Cervus Muntjac, Schreb. Saugthiere. Tab. 254, Syst. Linn. Ed. GmeL L p. ISO. 
Fischer Zoognos. III. p. 458. Shaw's Gen. ZooL Vol. II. Part II. p. 301. 
Cervus Moschatus, Blainv. nouv. Butt, de la Soc. Phil. 1816, p. 77. 
Cervus subcornutus, id. id. Encycl. Method. Mammalog. 
Par. M. A. G. Desmarest, lS22.p. 442, 
Cervus Muntjak ? Sir T. S. Raffleis Cat of a Zool. Coll made in Sumatra, Tr. Linn. 
Soc. XIII. p. 265. 
Cervus Muntjac, Desm. Encycl. I. cit p. 441. 
Cervus Moschus, id. id. 
ALTHOUGH a very common animal in the Islands of the Indian Archipelago, 
the Cert us Muntjak or Kidang has only in very recent periods been distinctly 
known in Europe. The first clear account of our animal, as it occurs in Java, was 
communicated to the Public by Mr. Pennant, in the Second Edition of his History 
of Quadrupeds, which was published in 1781 ; and the learned author of the History 
of Sumatra, soon after this period, mentioned it with the name of Kijang, by which 
it is distinguished in that Island. The name of Cervus Muntjak was first employed 
by Zimmerman, in the German Edition of his Geographical Zoology. Schreber pub- 
lished a copy of Allamand's figure of this animal, as it occurs in Bengal, with an 
incorrect modification of the native name, which had been communicated to Zim- 
merman by Pennant. Since this period we find this name generally adopted by 
systematic writers, as appears by the preceding references. Mr. Allamand had 
an opportunity, in the year 1778, of examining an animal, brought in a living state 
to Amsterdam from Bengal, which had all the characters of the Cervus Muntjak. 
He gave a very excellent description of it, with the name of Chevreuil des Indes, 
in the edition of Buffon's Natural History which he published in Holland ; this was 
afterwards introduced, by the author himself, into the Sixth Volume of the Supple- 
ment of the Natural History of Quadrupeds and Birds, which appeared in 1782. 
The animal described by Allamand agrees in general character and in form with the 
