. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . rate species under the name of C. viariminus. Length onoutsidecurve. Circum-ference. Tip toTip. Points. Locality. Owner. 21 4i 5i 3 + 3 Luzon . Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 19I 5i 7i 4 + 4 Do. British Museum. i8i 5i 14? 4 + 3 Do. Do. £■.—BASILAN SAMBAR (C. unicolor nigricans). Smaller than the last, the height at the shoulder in a mountedspecimen in the British Museum being 27 inches. Detached antlersindicate, however, larger animals. Length on Circum-outside Tip t
. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . rate species under the name of C. viariminus. Length onoutsidecurve. Circum-ference. Tip toTip. Points. Locality. Owner. 21 4i 5i 3 + 3 Luzon . Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 19I 5i 7i 4 + 4 Do. British Museum. i8i 5i 14? 4 + 3 Do. Do. £■.—BASILAN SAMBAR (C. unicolor nigricans). Smaller than the last, the height at the shoulder in a mountedspecimen in the British Museum being 27 inches. Detached antlersindicate, however, larger animals. Length on Circum-outside Tip toTip. Points. Locality. Owner. 134 4S I2| 3 + 3 Basilan Island British Museum (A. II. Everett), I3i 42 Ilg 3 + 3 Do. Do. /^.—SZE-CHUEN SAMBAR (C unicolor dejeani). A large race from North-western China, with very massive antlers,which show a tendency to develop small supplemental snags. Length onoutsidecurve. Circum-ference. Tip toTip. Widestinside. Points. Locality 31 6 22 24i 3 + 3 China 3oi- l\ 151 i8i 3 + 3 .Sze-chuen Owner. Hon. Walter Museum (type). 66 RECORDS OF BIG GAME. Antlers of Javan a specimen in the collection of Sir Edmund (J. Loder, Bart. The RUSA DEER (Cervus [Rusa] hippelaphus). General form, coat, and colour sambar-like ; but the ears smaller,the tail thin, the hairs on the back banded with coloured rings, and theunder-parts, chin, and inner sides of buttocks whitish. Antlers com-paratively slender and only moderately rough, with the brow-tinemedium or short, and making a large acute angle with the beam ; thehind or inner tine of the terminal fork much longer than the frontor outer one, and forming the continuation of the beam, from thefront or front outer surface of which the brow-tine arises as an off-shoot ; the two antlers enclosing a lyrate space. Young, uniformlycoloured. There are two races of this species—one the Javan rusa{C. hippelaphus typicus) of the approximate size of a red deer, and theother the Moluccan
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