. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Formosan Sambar Formosan, and Szechuan races of the sambar will eventually have to be included under a single sub-specific title. Mr. Swinhoe states that the young, when about half-grown, " is reddish brown, with the tail bushy and black, but reddish at its root ; sides of the body paler, and the belly blackish brown ; legs pale towards the hoofs, the latter black ; under surface of tail, abdomen, and inner sides of hind-legs down to middle of shank yellowish white,
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Formosan Sambar Formosan, and Szechuan races of the sambar will eventually have to be included under a single sub-specific title. Mr. Swinhoe states that the young, when about half-grown, " is reddish brown, with the tail bushy and black, but reddish at its root ; sides of the body paler, and the belly blackish brown ; legs pale towards the hoofs, the latter black ; under surface of tail, abdomen, and inner sides of hind-legs down to middle of shank yellowish white, the breast and belly being blackish brown ; under surface of head and neck mottled whitey-brown ;. Fig. 40.—Formosan Sambar, from a male at Woburn Abbey. Photographed by the Duchess of Bedford. crown of the head, with many of the hairs, tipped with black ; from the occiput a dark line runs down to the base of the tail ; ears blackish brown, tipped and margined with ochreous white, and whitish on their ; It is not known whether the very young are spotted ; if they are not, there would be a distinction from the preceding race. Distribution.—The island of Formosa. The type specimen was pre- sented to the London Zoological Society in 1862, and is now in the British Museum. The society subsequently received three other examples, the last in 1868. Recently two examples apparently referable to this form were imported by a London dealer, one of which was sold to the Paris Zoological Gardens, while the second is living in the park at Woburn. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, R. Ward, limited
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