. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Moluccan Rusa 167 general colour of the upper-parts is speckled rufous yellowish brown, passing into uniform sambar-like brown on the flanks, where the hairs are not ringed, and speckling is consequently absent. The face is short ; the ears are of moderate size, and sparsely haired externally, where they are white on the outer side of the base. The inner surface of the ears, a line on each side of the nostrils, the lower lip, chin, under-parts, and the inside of the thig
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Moluccan Rusa 167 general colour of the upper-parts is speckled rufous yellowish brown, passing into uniform sambar-like brown on the flanks, where the hairs are not ringed, and speckling is consequently absent. The face is short ; the ears are of moderate size, and sparsely haired externally, where they are white on the outer side of the base. The inner surface of the ears, a line on each side of the nostrils, the lower lip, chin, under-parts, and the inside of the thighs and buttocks are white or whitish ; the lower portion of the legs being whitish brown. The antlers differ from the pair belonging to. Fig. 43.—Moluccan Rusa. From a photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. the Javan race in the Museum, figured on page 163, by the circumstance that the front tine of the terminal fork arises markedly from the outer side of the beam, instead of from the front ; but I have no means of knowing how far this difference is constant. Distribution.—Celebes and the islands of Boru, Batchian, and Amboina in the Molucca group ; all these islands lying between Borneo and New Guinea, and having a fauna with a certain number of Australian types. Sir Victor Brooke writes as follows concerning the occurrence of the rusa in these islands and Timor :—" Deer resembling Cervus hippclaphus in. 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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