Descriptions of East Asiatic Mammals 333 
This is a Chinese Deer. The typical race occurs in northern 
Yunnan and in Szechwan; the coastal and east Chinese race, 
E. c. michianus, found in Chekiang and Fukien, is colored a 
somewhat grayer shade of chocolate than the former, and there 
is often a line of white just above the hoof. The number of 
young born is one. The young has a pattern of indistinct spots 
along the back. 
The Muntjaks or Barking Deer, genus Muntiacus, are 
very distinctive small Deer from the fact that the antlers are 
carried on long, bony, hair-covered pedicels. They can be con- 
fused only with the Tufted Deer, Elaphodus, which also has 
pedicels. In the Muntjaks the antlers are well developed, while 
in Elaphodus they remain little more than rudiments. In the 
Muntjaks the pedicels are extended forward and downward on 
the face above the eyes as prominent ridges, reaching halfway to 
the front of the muzzle; in Elaphodus the pedicels stop behind 
the eyes. The antlers are simple, the tips curving slightly inward ; 
Fig. 69. Muntjak or Barking Deer, 
Muntiacus muntjak. 
