ji Field Columbian Museum — Zoology, Vol. i. 



2. I HI FOLLOWING 1> A LIST OF SPECIMENS PROCURED FROM PROF. J. B. 

 STEERE, COLLECTED IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, AND REPRESEN1 

 5PECIES NOT DETERMIN ED i:\ HIM. 



Cervus steerii sp. inn'. Plates VIII— X. 



Basilan, Philippine Archipelago (Steere). 



General Characters. Hair coarse and harsh, spreading out from 

 a circle on top of the shoulders as seen in the Water Buck iCobus 

 ellipsiprymnus) and some other African antelopes. General form of 

 body stout and heavy, with stout, rather short legs, the hind ones 

 longer than those in front. Ears small and rather narrow, and cov- 

 ered with hair within and without. Head long and narrow, especially 

 at the nasal region, which is suddenly contracted in front of the 

 upper tooth row. Nose pointed. Hoofs broad for their length and 

 heavy, with a wide spread, and rounded at the tip, not pointed. 



Adult Male. Nose and sides of face vandyke brown, the tips of 

 the hairs ferrugineous. A small space above the nostrils blackish- 

 brown without any ferrugineous. Bare end of nose and center of 

 upper lip brownish-black. No mark of a mustache as in C. pliilip- 

 phuis. Forehead, nostrils, sides of upper lip, back of head to ante- 

 rior border of eyes, and inner sides of horn pedicles, black, each hair 

 largely tipped with ferrugineous. Beneath the eyes, cheeks and outer 

 side of horn pedicles bright ferrugineous. Ears black behind and 

 white inside. Back of neck and line to center of shoulders vandyke 

 brown. No dorsal streak. Sides of neck, back, sides of body, out- 

 sides of legs to ankles, and tail above and below, prout's brown. 

 Chin and sides of under lip for half its apical length vandyke brown. 

 Lower sides and between jaws whitish or yellowish-white. Chest 

 between fore legs, entire belly and insides of thighs yellowish-white, 

 with a strong tinge of buff on the belly. Inside of legs whitey-brown. 

 Hoofs blackish-brown at base, remainder pale yellow. Horns rough- 

 ened for their entire length, and except the tips of the tines, black. 

 Tip of tines and edges of roughened portions of the beam, yellow- 

 ish-white. 



Skull of Male. Roof of cranial cavity convex from middle of 

 orbits to supra-occipital, the slope being most marked from between 

 the pedicles to base of skull. Facial portion flat and broad, retaining 

 its width to second premolar, when it narrows rapidly, and is depressed 

 markedly at the junction of the nasals and maxillae anterior to the 

 antorbital vacuity. Antorbital fossa large and deep, being nearly 



