kidangn.
/kɪˈdaŋ/ The Malay name for the Indian muntjac or barking deer, Muntiacus muntjak.
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muntjac1771
rib-faced deer1781
kidang1783
Chinese muntjac1852
kakar1876
barking deer1880
1783 W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra 94 Deer: rooso: keejang. These are variety [sic] of the deer species.
1824 T. Horsfield Zool. Res. Java Cervus Muntjak, The chace of the Kidang, by means of dogs, affords occasionally a favourite amusement to the natives of rank in Java.
1824 T. Horsfield Zool. Res. Java In the Javanese language..the name is Kīdang, which with a slight modification—Kîjang—is also employed in the Malayan language.
1839 T. J. Newbold Polit. & Statist. Acct. Straits of Malacca I. vii. 436 Of the genus Cervus, are the Kijang or Cervus Muntjac, the Rúsa etc.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 602/2 The kidang or mintjac (Cervulus muntjac) and the rusa (Rusa hippelaphus) are the chief representatives of the deer kind [in Java].
1900 W. W. Skeat Malay Magic v. 251 The Gold spirit being supposed to take the shape of a kijang or roe-deer.
1958 J. Slimming Temiar Jungle ii. 28 They'll eat Rusa, Pelandok, and Kijang.
1965 C. Shuttleworth Malayan Safari iii. 38 The first visitor to the salt-lick was a kijang or barking deer.
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