. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . een describedas a separate species under the name of C. mariannus. Length onoutside Circum-ference. Tip toTip. Points. Locality. Owner. curve. 21 4i 5h 3 + 3 Luzon . Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart i9§ 5i 7* 4 + 4 Do. British Museum. iS§ Si 14I 4+3 Do. Do. E.—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 onoutside Circum-feren
. Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . een describedas a separate species under the name of C. mariannus. Length onoutside Circum-ference. Tip toTip. Points. Locality. Owner. curve. 21 4i 5h 3 + 3 Luzon . Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart i9§ 5i 7* 4 + 4 Do. British Museum. iS§ Si 14I 4+3 Do. Do. E.—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 onoutside Circum-ference. Tip toTip. Points. Locality. curve. 13! 4i I2| 3 + 3 Basilan Island 134 4i I If 3 + 3 Do. Owner. British Museum (A. H. Everett).Do. F—SZE-CHUAN 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 on Circum- Tip to Widest p_;nt_outside ference. Tip. inside,curve. Locality. 22 i\\ 3 + 3 China Hon. Walter Museum (type). Owners measurements 68 RECORDS OF BIG GAME. Antlers of Javan a specimen in the collection of Sir Edmund G. 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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