. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. 190 Rucervine Group Rucervus duvaucelii, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxviii. part i. p. 356 (1873), Ixx. part i. p. 324 (1874). Axis dimorpha, Fitzinger, op. cit. Ixx. p. 272 (1874). Cervus duvauce/i, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 905 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. In J. Mus. part ii. p. 179 (1891) ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India—Ma mm. p. 538 (1 891) ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 13 (1896). Rucervus duvaucelli, Sterndale, Mamm. India, p. 510 (1884). Plate XIV Charact
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. 190 Rucervine Group Rucervus duvaucelii, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxviii. part i. p. 356 (1873), Ixx. part i. p. 324 (1874). Axis dimorpha, Fitzinger, op. cit. Ixx. p. 272 (1874). Cervus duvauce/i, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 905 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. In J. Mus. part ii. p. 179 (1891) ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India—Ma mm. p. 538 (1 891) ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 13 (1896). Rucervus duvaucelli, Sterndale, Mamm. India, p. 510 (1884). Plate XIV Characters.—Height at shoulder from 3 feet 8 inches to 3 feet 10 inches ; build stout and tall ; hair moderately fine, and somewhat woolly ; muzzle long and slender. Antlers smooth and flattened, with a long brow-tine rising almost at right angles to the beam ; above the brow-tine the beam remains undivided for about half its length, when it splits into a regular fork, of which each branch is usually again simply forked, although, as in the specimen shown in Fig. 51, the outer branch may be much longer than the inner one, and bear three or more tines; small snags are frequently developed on the upper surface of the brow-tine, although sports at its junction with the beam are seldom seen, and the brow-tine is never forked. Metatarsal gland and tuft wanting. General colour of pelage in summer bright rufous brown, frequently, or usually, with a broad brown line down the middle of the back, bordered by a line Fig. 51.—Side view of Frontlet and Antlers of Swamp-Deer. From a specimen in or white spots on each side, and more or the British Museum. ]ess fajnt traces of other spots ; the throat, inner side of the thighs, and under-parts white or whitish, and the lower surface of the tail invariably pure white ; in winter the upper-parts yellowish brown, and the under-parts paler ; in hinds the colour is lighter at all seasons, and the young are fully spotted. Please note that these imag
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