ART. 1 MAMMALS FEOM CHI^STA HOWELL i7 



1 am not in a position to form an opinion in re<iard to tiie validity 

 of tiiis race of stag. There is a g-ood deal of uniformity in the body 

 color in respect to season, but considerable variation in the nuchal 

 stripe and in rump marking. In animals from the same locality the 

 black of the upper rump may extend to the tail tip, or again the whole 

 of the lower rump above the tail may be Avhitish, or of an intermediate 

 character. 



CERVUS XANTHOPYGUS Milne-Edwarda 



Cert US xanthopyguH Milne-Euwabos. Ann. S(i. Nat. Paris, vol. 5, p. 8, 1869, 

 p. 376 (probably the Ussuri district, Manchuria). 



Specimens. — Three from Imienpo, Manchuria. 

 This form is very distinct from knsuensis., with a reddish tone 

 which the latter lacks. An immature is as red as any Capreoius. 



Genus ELAPHURUS Milne-Edwards 



ELAPHURUS DAVIDIANUS Milne-Edwards 



Elaphurus davidicnius Milne-Edwakds, Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, vol. 5, pt. 5, 1866, 

 p. 380 (Peking, Chihli, China). 



The National collection contains a mounted specimen and skull 

 without horns (possibly the same individual) from Woburn Abbey. 



Genus CAPREOLUS Gray 



CAPREOLUS BEDFORDI Thomas 



Caprcolus hcdfordi Thomas, Abst. Proc. Zool. Soe. London, 1908, p. 32 (100 

 miles northwest of Taiyuanfu, Shansi, China). 



Spechnens. — Seven : 50 miles west of Fenchowf u, 2, and Kneihua- 

 cheng, Shansi, 1; 12 miles south of Yenanfu, Shensi, 2; Hsinlung- 

 shan, Chihli, 1; and a single specimen from an unknown locality. 



The relationship of the different forms of Asiatic roe deer is imper- 

 fectly understood and for the present they ma}^ be treated as full 

 species. None of these specimens exhibits any tendency toward the 

 blackening of the ears that is characteristic of tnelanotis. 



CAPREOLUS MELANOTIS Miller 



Capreolus melanotis Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 24, 1911, p. 231 (30 

 miles east of Chingyangfu, Kansu, China). 



/Specimen. — One — the type. 



CAPREDLUS PYGARGUS (Pallas) 



Cervus pi/yanjus Pall.\s, Reise Russul., vol. 1, 1777, p. 97 (Altai, Siberia). 



Specimen. — One from Imienpo, Manchuria. 



This September skin is still in the summer coat, which is of the 

 brown type and rather dark — not the red type characteristic of 



