956 THE UNGULATES, OR HOOFED MAMMALS 



THE TUFTED DEER 

 Genus Elaphodus 



Nearly related to the muntjacs are two small deer from Chinese territory, of 

 which the one known as Michie's deer (Elaphodus michianus] inhabits Eastern 

 China, while the other, which may be called the Tibetan tufted deer (E. cephalo- 

 phus}, is from Moupin, in Eastern Tibet. In the males of these deer, as represented 

 in the accompanying illustration, the antlers are extremely minute and unbranched, 

 while their supports take the form of long pedicles, which, instead of diverging as 

 in the muntjacs, are convergent. Then, again, the rib-like ridges occurring on the 

 face of the muntjacs are absent, as are likewise some small glands found on the fore- 



MICHIE'S DEER. 

 (From Sclater, Proc., Zool. Soc., 1876.) 



head of the latter. Like the muntjacs, the bucks of these two deer are furnished 

 with long tusks in the upper jaw, although their extremities are not turned outward. 

 In both species the hair is so coarse as to have been compared to small quills; and 

 on the forehead the hair is lengthened so as to form a kind of horseshoe-like crest 

 on the tuft. 



In Michie's deer the general color of the fur is grayish black, each individual 

 hair being white for a considerable distance above its base, and the face and neck 

 uniformly dark gray, while the crest on the forehead and portions of the ears are 

 dark brown. In the Tibetan tufted deer the fur on the head, neck, and fore- 

 quarters is dark brown, each hair being brown above and whitish beneath, while a 

 pure white ring divides the two colors; consequently there is a speckled appearance 



