. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. i ;2 Rusine Group general constant, the form of antler described above is not absolutely so, Mr. Blanford possessing a Burmese skull in which the hind tine of the terminal fork is the longer on one side, and the front tine on the other ; but even in the former case the antler is not of the type of that of C. hipp- elaphus. More precise information is required with regard to the coloration of the young. In the writings of Messrs. Jerdon and Brooke all the sambarare credit
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. i ;2 Rusine Group general constant, the form of antler described above is not absolutely so, Mr. Blanford possessing a Burmese skull in which the hind tine of the terminal fork is the longer on one side, and the front tine on the other ; but even in the former case the antler is not of the type of that of C. hipp- elaphus. More precise information is required with regard to the coloration of the young. In the writings of Messrs. Jerdon and Brooke all the sambarare credited with having unspotted young; and this view was followed by Mr. Blan- ford. A correspondent of the Asian newspaper, writing about the year 1892 or 1893, mentioned, however, that in Cachar sambar always produce spotted young, and I have some reason to believe that this is also the case in Burma. In 1893 Mr- C. Hose described a very young sambar fawn from Mount Dulit, in North Borneo, which he regarded as distinguish- able from the present form on account of being spotted, and to which he applied the name C. brookei. In this specimen, which is now in the British Museum, the general colour is foxy red, with faint yellowish spots on the hind-quarters ; the Fig. and Antlers of Malayan tail and a streak down the back being Sambar. From a Burmese specimen in black. Another fawn ill the Museum, the British Museum. (Rowland Ward, r , Records of Big Game.) also sent bv Mr- Hose from Borneo, and labelled C. equinus, is of approximately the same age, and shows a few very faint traces of spots on the hind-quarters. In the skin of a third and somewhat older fawn in the Museum, likewise -cut bv the same gentleman from Borneo, the spots are wanting, and the head and neck have begun to assume the adult grayish colour. Probably the spots have disappeared. A spotted fawn was born at Woburn Abbey in January 1 898. Mr. Hose's original description of his presumed species is as follow
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