The short coat is a uniform tawny brown in colouration.
Compared to the other "hog deer", the Calamian deer has relatively long legs, which are darker than the rest of the body.
Endangered (900 in 1996)

Live in group of 10 to 30 heads with in general 2 or 3 males. The reproductive cycle and the period of fall of wood vary much from one province to another. The rut is in May in central provinces, august/septembre in the provinces of the south and in winter in north. It differs from the Fallow Deer by non palmate antler and the absence of visible Adam's apple.

• Axis axis axis : Indian Axis Deer, India (Erxleben 1777) .
• Axis axis ceylonensis : Ceylonese Axis deer, Ceyon (Fischer 1829) .

Heavy and rather low on legs. The coat is an ochre-brown colour. Solitary cervidae. The name 'hog deer' may come from this deer's squat frame and pig-like manner of moving through the forest.

• Axis porcinus annamiticus : _______, Thailand, Indo-China (Heude 1888) endangered. .
• Axis porcinus porcinus : Common Hog deer, India of north, Burma and Ceylon (Zimmermann 1780) .

The general colouration of the short, coarse coat is a uniform brown. The body is long and rounded and the legs shorter in the front than the back, a combination which gives this deer a stocky, crouching appearance. The shy Bawean deer is mainly active at night, leaving their resting places in the undergrowth to graze in clearings and fields.
Endangered (less than 300 in 1996)