Vol. XIII, pp. 185-186 December 21. 1900 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NKW MOUSE DEER FROM LOWER SIAM.* 



V,Y TiERRIT S. MILLER, Jk. 



The large Traf/u/ifs of the n<fj)>/ type inhabiting Trong, Lower 

 Siani, differs notably from the Sumatran animal as described by 

 F. Ciivier and as represented by a specimen from Linga Island, 

 off the east coast of Sumatra. As none of the names based on 

 continental specimens a]»pear to be ajtplicable to it, the species 

 may be known as: 



Trag'ulus canescens sp. nov. 



Ti/pr. —AauU female (skin and skull) Xo. 83,009, United States Xa- 

 tidiial .Aluseum. Collected in Trong', Lower Siam, September 7, 1890 by 

 Dr. \y. L. Abbott. 



('Jtdvdcteri^. — Larger than Trngulus napv and much paler, less yellow 

 in color; chest and belly entirely white, or at most the former very 

 faintly shaded with gray along median line; sides clear gray; dark nape 

 band obsolete. 



('(dor. — Back orange-buff heavily clouded with blackish brown, but 

 latter color never in excess of former. On sides the orange-buff fades 

 abruptly through cream-bviff to nearly white, producing with the black- 

 ish tips of the hairs a clear gray, faintly yellowish, strongly contrasted 

 with color of back. Flanks more tinged with buff than sides. Harsh 

 fur of shoulders, neck and nape irregularly and coarsely grizzled with 



*Published here by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



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