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Show 38 SIR V. BROOKE ON THE GENUS CERVULUS. [Jan. 6, the fourth and fifth digits on both fore and hind extremities having, as far at least as the specimens examined by m e are concerned, entirely disappeared. In this respect Cervulus stands alone amongst the Cervidae. The Muntjacs are small animals, solitary in habits, rarely even two being seen together. They are fond of hilly grounds covered with forest, and, in common with all deer, exhibit much partiality to particular spots. Their alarm-cry is a sharp shrill bark ; when attacked by dogs the males use their sharp exserted canines with extraordinary severity, inflicting upon their opponents deep and, at times, even dangerous wounds. These teeth being very loose in their sockets, it has been imagined by some that the animal possesses the power of moving them, so as to give greater effect to the blow when striking with them. I have never examined the matter for myself; but the presence or absence of muscular fibre connected with the canines would at once decide the question. Mr. Swinhoe (P. Z. S. 1872, p. 816) describes a similar looseness in the canines of Hydropotes inermis. Genus CERVULUS. 1816. Cervulus, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Phil. p. 74. 1827. Styloceros (subgenus), H a m . Smith, Griff. Cuv. An. Kingd. vol. v. p. 319. 1836. Prox, Ogilby, P. Z. S. p. 135. Stature small. Hair smooth and short. Cutaneous frontal glands present. Suborbital glands large. No tarsal glands. Limbs short. Back arched, high behind. Frontals developing, in the male, long processes for the support of the horns, each process sending downwards from its root a supraorbital ridge, which serves to protect the frontal glands. Horns short, possessing short brow-antlers, which, as well as the points of the horns themselves, project inwards. CERVULUS MUNTJAC. 1780. Cervus muntjak, Zimm. Geogr. Gesch. Band ii. p. 131. 1781. Rib-faced Deer, Penn. Hist. Quadr. sec. edit. p. 107. 1785. Cervus muntjak and C. vaginalis, Bodd. Elench. anim. vol. i. p. 136. 1788. Cervus muntjac, G m . S. N . i. p. 180. 1811. Kijang, Marsd. Hist. Sum. 3rd. edit. p. 117, cum fig. 1816. Cervus moschatus, Blainv. Nouv. Bull. Soc. Phil. p. 77. 1824. Cervus muntjac, Horsf. Zool. Res. Java. 1839-1844. Cervus muntjac, Mull. & Schl. Verh. Nat. Gesch p. 225. 1827. Cervus muntjak and C. moschatus, Ham. Smith, Griff, edit Cuv. Anim. Kingd. vol. v. pp. 319, 320. 1852. Styloceros muntjacus, Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. p. 85. 1855. Cervus muntjac and C. styloceros, Wagn. Siiugeth. p. 38*8 1867. Cervulus aureus, Jerd. M a m m . p. 264. 1869. Cervulus vaginalis, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. p. 652. 1873. Cervulus moschatus, Gray, Hand-list Rum. M a m m . p. 103 |