The Indian chevrotain (Tragulus meminna) differs from all the others in having the 

 body spotted with white, and the whole of the chin and throat uniformly covered 

 with hair. It is of medium height, standing from ten to twelve inches at the 

 withers, and weighing from five to six pounds. In color, the upper parts are brown 

 of variable shade, minutely speckled with yellow; while the flanks are spotted with 

 white or buff on a brown ground; the spots being more or less elongated, and often 

 passing into short longitudinal stripes. This chevrotain is found in Southern India 

 and Ceylon at elevations below two thousand feet, extending northward as far as 

 Orissa on the east coast, and to the Western Ghats near Bombay on the west. The 

 other four species have the upper parts of the body uniformly colored, and the skin 

 between the two branches of the lower jaw completely naked and glandular. Of 



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THE SMALLER MALAYAN CHEVROTAIN. 



(One-twelfth natural size.) 



these the largest species is the larger Malayan chevrotain (T. napu], standing 

 thirteen inches in height at the shoulder, and characterized by its dark smoky -gray 

 color, with the under parts grayish white without any rufous or fulvous edging. 

 This species occurs in South Tenasserim, the Malay Peninsula, and the islands of 

 Sumatra and Borneo. 



The two other Malayan species are rufous either over the whole of the upper 

 parts or on the flanks and the edges of the white area of the under parts. Stanley's 

 chevrotain ( T. stanleyanus} , from some of the Malayan islands, is intermediate in 

 size between the preceding and following species, and has all the upper parts bright 

 rufous. On the other hand, the smaller Malayan chevrotain (T. javanicus} , which 

 is the one represented in our illustration, is the most diminutive member of the 

 group, and is grayish above, with the sides brightening to rufous, and a dark line, 



