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This animal differs from the Samboo in size and colour. The Samboo near to it at the same time was 
nearly black, the front of the muzzle rounded, the nose black, forming a band across the chin ; front of 
chin (only) white ; tail all black ; face paler than back, and more grisled, but uniformly coloured, without 
any black streak over the eyes or up the side of the nose ; vent flesh-coloured. Much larger. Thompson 
says the C. equlnus is different. They have the skin at Knowsley. 
The Earl of Derby observes : — 
" In reply to the query in your last relative to the proportion of size between the two Cerm I had here 
lately, Rusa and Equina, of which I sent you the hair, they were very much of a size ; but, as in almost all 
of the tribe, the male was rather the largest. I should have said, from my own recollection, that though 
very much alike in size in all ways, that the male was the higher, but the female the more bulky; but John 
(Thompson) assures me the male had it both ways, and would certainly have vi^eighed a good deal heavier 
than the hind. We will not forget your wishes about the hair of the other Deer. 
" The packets I sent you of Cervine hair were both from the same part of the two animals, the ribs." 
" By the way, did you, while they were still in London, see the two Deer Westermann has lately sent 
to me by the name of Cervus Moluccensis of Miiller. They are small, and very poor, and Thompson cannot 
be persuaded that they are of a different species from those Westermann before sent me as the Rusa, and 
which have bred here so well with us. He thinks them only a dwarf variety of that, or at least the female 
he feels some doubt about ; but I cannot think that Miiller could have made such an error. My old C. Rusa 
is now a splendid animal. The new one's horns are too small to judge by, and his tail is very different, I 
think. Our young ones are larger than the new arrival." — Oct. 17, 1848. 
The Smaller Rusas have no mane ; the peduncles of the horns are rather elongated, and covered with 
hair. 
The Smaller Rusa. Rusa Peronii. 
Brown, paler beneath ; hair rigid, thick, ringed ; muzzle dark ; tall brown, floccose ; anal disk white ; 
the hind part of the feet hairy ; the horns are thick and heavy. 
Cerms Peronii, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 46. t. 5. f. 41, 45. — Sundev. Pecora, 66. — Cervus Kuhlii, S. Miiller, Ne- 
derl. Verh. 45. t. 44. — Sundev. Pecora, 56 —Rusa Kuhlii, Gray, List Osteol. Spec. B. M. 68. 
Inhabits Timor, Luboc, Bavian and Ternate. Specimen in Brit. Mus. 
Philippine Rusa. Rtisa Philippinus. 
Forehead brown ; end of nose and eyebrows brownish ; feet behind naked ; hair rigid, not waved. 
Cerf de Philippine, Desm. Mamm. 442. — Cervus Philippinus, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 147. t. . v. 803. — Fischer, 
Syn. 622. — Sundev. Pecora, 66. 
Var. ? Tail black, dependent ; front of face dark. 
Cervus Marianus, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 46. t. 5. f. 30, 37, 38, 46.— H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 115. t. (from Mus. 
Paris). — Fischer, Syn. 453. — Sundev. Pecora, 57. 
Inhabits Philippines. 
The Philippine Rusa or Hog Deer was living at Knowsley for some years ; it has lately died. 
This species has the horn or elongated peduncle, like the Muntjacs, but it is easily distinguished from 
them by the absence of the ridge and of the grooves on the face. 
The Little Rusa Rusa lepida. 
Reddish brown; back and sides varied with pale, spotted hair; vent disk small, white, black edged 
above ; tail longly hairy, white, above black ; face brown, with a roundish white spot in front of 
the usual oval black spot ; horns smooth, slender, nearly straight, elongate, the basal snag bent 
down on the forehead. 
Cervus (^Hippelaphus') lepida, Sundev. Pecora, 57. 
Inhabits Java. Mus. Frankfort. 
Scarcely as large as a Roebuck. Only known from Dr. Sundeval's description. 
8. AXIS (ZT. Smitfi), Hippelaphus *** (Sundev?). 
Covered with moderately thick, polished hairs ; fulvous and beautifully white spotted at all seasons ; the 
face is elongate, narrow, and the ears large, rather elongate and acute, with a rather elongate tail. 
