CERVUS MUNTJAK. 
forward, which, with the delicacy of the legs, increases the sprightly appearance of 
our animal. The texture of the hairs is firm ; they are rigid, bristly, and closely 
applied to the body, so that the appearance of the Kidang is generally sleek. A 
naked horny point serves to attach them to the skin, as in the European Roe ; this 
is perfectly white ; towards the extremity the tint lias different shades and modifi- 
cations, agreeably to the external colour, The hairs are arranged in close contact, 
but have no woolly appendage at the base, and thus constitute a covering adapted 
to the climate ; they are lengthened on some parts, and their distribution affords 
various ornamental tufts to our animal; one of the most conspicuous of these is 
along the course of the pedestals of the horns, and at their termination. 
The colour of the Cervus Muntjak varies in different periods of the year, and 
in different countries. The female also, at least in Java, is darker than the male. 
The reddish brown tint of the male, in the female is diversified with gray. This is 
the colour of the Indian Roe described by Allamand; and while our animal agrees 
with that in the structure of the horns, in the size and disposition of the lacrymal 
furrows, and in all the essential characters, it cannot be considered as specifically 
different, in consequence of a slight modification of colour. The drawing already 
mentioned from the collections of Dr. Hamilton, representing the head of the Rib- 
faced Deer, agrees in the reddish brown tint with the Javanese animal ; but the 
lines passing along the face and horns are dark brown instead of black. The prepa- 
ration in the Museum of Mr. Brookes has the same tint ; hut the form of the horns, 
and the ribs of the face, agree strikingly with our animal. As far as I have been 
able to determine from the specimens, figures, and from descriptions, I consider the 
Chevreuil des Indes of Allamand, the Rib-faced Deer of Pennant and Hamilton, 
and the Kidang, or Kijang, of the Indian Islands, as belonging to the same species, 
the Cervus Muntjak of Zimmerman. 
Although the Cervus Muntjak resembles the Cervus Capreolus, or Roe, in 
many points, yet in determining its situation in a natural series, it is necessary to 
take a general view of all the species of Cervus hitherto discovered; it will then 
appear, that in several essential characters our animal differs from the Roe, and 
resembles the Cervus Elaphus. Among the characters, from which the species of 
Cervus have been arranged into groups, the elevation of the horns on pedestals is 
one ; but it does not associate the species in a natural manner. This character occurs 
in the Cervus Capreolus, in the Cervus Pygargus, in several American species of 
Deer resembling the Roe, to which the Cervus sufadatus of Mr. Brookes belongs, 
and in the Cervus Muntjak, But this character is of a relative nature; and a pedestal 
