Vol. XXIV, pp 1-2 January 28, 1911 



PROCEEDINGS 



or THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW MUSK-DEER FROM KOREA. 



BY N. HOLLISTER. 

 TBy permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.] 



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During the winter of 1902-3, Dr. William Lord Smith, of 

 Boston, -hunted in southwestern peninsular Korea, and later, 

 with other spoils of the trip, presented to the United States 

 National Museum the skin of an undescribed musk-deer. 

 Doctor Smith writes of his trip:* 'I started from Mok-po 

 (lat. 35°) and went down the coast, partly by boat and partly 

 on foot, to the end of the peninsula. The specimens in question 

 were collected during November and December, 1902, and Jan- 

 uary, 1903. I was never far from the western coast line and 

 was really tiger shooting, bagging two tigers myself, my hunter 

 getting one." 



Korea appears not to have been included in the range of 

 the musk-deer as given in recent works, though the animal was 

 recorded from there as far back as 1867 by Pere David. f Had 

 Doctor Smith undertaken his trip in summer, he would, doubt- 

 less, have missed the capture of this handsome new species. 



Moschus parvipes sp. nov. 



Type from mountains near Mok-po, South Tscholla Province, Korea. 

 Cat. No. 143,184 United States National Museum. Skin only, collected 

 winter of 1902-3, by Dr. William Lord Smith. 



General characters.— Smaller than Moschus moschiferus or any of the 

 described related forms; legs slender and feet small, with much smaller 

 main and lateral hoofs. Color strikingly ricli and dark, with sharp mark- 

 ings; hair of winter coat much softer and shorter than in M. moschiferus, 

 only about 35 mm. long on shoulders. 



* Letter to Austin H. Clark, January 27, 1910. 



tRull. nouv. arch. nnis. d'hist. nat. Paris, III, p. 29, ISC". 



1— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.. Vol. XXIV. 1911. (1) 



