CERVUS MUNTJAK. 
Javanese Kidang, although it is sufficiently different in colour to constitute a variety. 
A detailed drawing of the head of the Rib-faced Deer from India, presented to the 
Honourable Company's M useum by Dr. Francis Hamilton, exhibits this peculiar cha- 
racter of the face ; but the black lines which mark the forehead and the pedestals of the 
horns have a paler tint. Allamand illustrates his description with a good figure of 
the Indian Roe, which has been copied into several books on Natural History. 
Boddaert has described the Rib-faced Deer of Pennant as a species distinct from 
the Chevreuil des Indes of Allamand: the former — Cervus Muntjak, JBodd. — is charac- 
terized, cornibus trifariis micinatis corpora crassiore facie sulcata ; the latter, which he 
names Cervus vaginalis, cornibus miiramosis parvis vaginis duabus convexis pilosis, ad 
os nasi coeuntibus, impfantatis, sinubus lacrymalihus maximis. It will appear from the 
following details, that the horns, in the young Kidang, are undivided ; that in the 
adult they are commonly bipartite and hooked (uncinate); that they are rarely trifid ; 
that the ribs of the face appear more distinct in the prepared specimens than in the 
animal during life ; and that the species is always supplied with very large lacrymal 
sinuses. I have therefore considered Boddaerfs descriptions as applying to the same 
animal modified by age and circumstances. The specific character of Gmelin, founded 
on the description of Pennant, does not convey an accurate idea of our animal. I 
shall detail in the sequel my reasons for uniting in the table of Synonyms, the Cervus 
moschatus and the Cervus subcornutus of Dr. De Blainville, with the Cervus 
Muntjak. 
As several perfect specimens of the Kidang, which were forwarded from Sumatra 
by Sir Stamford Raffles, are contained in the Museum at the India House, a faithful 
drawing was prepared by Mr. Daniell, which I shall endeavour to illustrate by the fol- 
lowing description, adding some details regarding its history and peculiarities inJava. 
The name of Muntjak, introduced by Zimmerman as the specific name, is 
applied to our animal, in the Sunda language, which is used in the western portion of 
the Island. In the Javanese language properly so called, which is employed in the 
eastern districts and at the Courts, the name is Kidang, which with a slight modifi- 
cation — KijaNG — is also employed in the Malayan language, and in most parts of 
Sumatra. 
The distinguishing characters of the Cervus Muntjak consist in elongated 
pedestals supporting the horns, in canine teeth lengthened so as to constitute tusks, 
and in several large folds of the skin of the forehead, which in the prepared specimens 
