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This spectacular deer is endemic to low-lying plains of the central part,
but at present already extinct. Back uniformly dark brown with lighter
underpart. Forehead and legs of reddish shades of brown. Short tail has
silvery white under surface. Distinctive antlers of the bucks often described as basket-like, formed by the forking at every point of branching; beam relatively short; and brow tine always forked.
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Formerly throughout the Central Chao Phraya River Floodplain, west to
Uthai Thani, east to Nakhon Nayok, Prachin Buri, Chachoengsao, Bangkok
and Samut Prakarn. Now entirely extirpated from Thailand.