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likewise an equally-marked difference in regard to the degree of development of the 
ridges and furrows on the antlers. 
^ ^ . The sambar occurs typically in the wooded undulating; or hilly 
districts of India and Ceylon; but Mr. Blanford concludes that the 
smaller Malayan and Burmese forms, which have been described under the names of 
C. hippelaphus and C. equinus, are not specifically separate; although the front-tine 
of the terminal fork of the antlers is much shorter than the back one, instead of 
the sambar (1*5 nat. size). 
the two being subequal. The range of the sambar accordingly extends from India 
to the Malayan Islands, and thus covers nearly the entire Oriental region. In the 
Himalaya it may range to elevations of nine thousand or ten thousand feet; and it 
is commonly found on the highest mountains of Southern India and Ceylon. It is 
but seldom seen on the alluvial plains frequented by the chital, and is absent from 
the sandy plains of Sind, the Punjab, and Rajputana. 
Mr. Blanford observes that the sambar “ is the woodland deer of 
South-Eastern Asia generally, and is more widely and generally dis¬ 
tributed than any other species. Although it does not shun the neighbourhood of 
