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Show 1874.] SIR V. BROOKE ON THE GENUS CERVULUS. 39 1873. Cervulus amostylis, Gray, ibid. p. 165. 1873. Cervulus tumulicus, Gray, ibid. Anterior parts of the face, from the muzzle to between the eyes, brown, a blackish line running up the inside of each frontal pedestal. The rest of the pedestals, upper parts of the forehead, and occiput foxy red. Fore legs, from the shoulder downwards, line in front of the hind legs, starting from the patella, and all the limbs from the tarsal joints downwards, dark bluish brown. Chin, throat, inside of hind legs and under surface of tail white. The rest of the body of a brilliant yellowish red, darker in the upper parts of the back-the hairs on the sides being grey below, strongly tipped with yellow, those on the back being also ringed with black. Fig. 3. Skull of Cervulus muntjac. Skull. Depression in the lachrymal bone for the reception of the suborbital gland not occupying the entire bone, a portion of the lachrymal falling in a vertical direction between the frontal bone, the anteorbital vacuity, and the gland. Height about 26" at the shoulder. Hab. British India, Burmah, Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Hainan ; Banka, Borneo (Schl. fy Mull.). In a large collection of the skins, skulls, and horns of this species, which I have received from all parts of India and Burmah, and in a considerable number of living specimens which I have examined, I have observed amongst adult animals so much difference in size and intensity of coloration, that I have found it impossible to retain the Muntjac of Java and Sumatra as a distinct species. The Munt-iacs from the south of India are, as a rule, decidedly smaller than those from the north, as is also the case with the Axis and Indian Antelope. But even this rule is subject to many exceptions ; I have received from Northern India perfectly adult and even slightly aged specimens of both Muntjac and Axis inferior in size to the average as presented by these species in Southern India. These small races |