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occupying the higher parts of the island, in a country of steep, rocky 

 ridges, covered thickly with timber and thick undergrowth. In the val- 

 leys were shallow streams. I took it rather for a mountaineer than a 

 swamp inhabiter, though the whole country was dripping with moist- 

 ure at the time of my visit, and the higher lands in the Philippines are 

 always the swampiest. We have one male mounted in the museum 

 of the University of Michigan. I noticed that all the deer procured 

 in Basilan were closely alike in color, size and character of horns. I 

 believe the skin and skull you have, with a skin of a doe and the 

 buck mounted here, were all the specimens we procured from Basi- 

 lan. 1 have an impression that the same differentiation of species 

 of Cervus exists in the Philippines as I found so prominent in many 

 genera of birds." 



From C. philippinus the present species differs in the shape of the 

 horns, especially of the brow antlers, which are much shorter rela- 

 tively to the length of the beam and straight. The horns figured 

 of C. philippinus in P. Z. S., 1S66, p. 367, and 1S77, p. 56, as C. 

 mariannus, but which are considered by Sir Victor Brooke to belong 

 to C. philippinus, the two species being identical, are entirely different 

 in shape and relative proportion of tines, from the horns of C. steerii. 

 The color of the two animals is different, and the new species is 

 without the mustache and other characteristic marks on the face. 

 The tarsal gland is not marked by any particularly colored spot 

 whatever. 



Tragulus nigricans Thomas. Pi vie XI. 



A skeleton of an adult animal from Balabac, which I presume 

 belongs to this species. Figures are given of the upper surface and 

 profile of the skull. This is probably the species given by Messrs. 

 Dean and Worcester as T. javanicus. 



Pteropus jubatus Eschol. 



Two specimens, male and female, from Concepcion, Panay. 



Pteropus edulis Geoff. 



Two specimens, male and female, from Island of Leyte. 



Pteropus hypomelanus Temm. 



Four examples, male and female, from Concepcion, Panay. and 

 a male and supposed female from Guimares. This last specimen is 

 very differently colored from the female obtained at Concepcion. The 

 entire neck and upper part of the back being a yellowish buff grading 

 into a rusty red, and continuing as a collar of yellowish buff on shoul- 

 ders and on top of breast, where, however, it is very narrow. Middle 



