556 IBAGULID.E. 



with a yellow ring a short distance from the tip. Sides spotted 

 with white or buff on a brown ground, the spots elongate and 

 passing into longitudinal bands. Lower parts white ; throat with 

 3 white stripes, one in the middle pointed in front, and an oblique 

 one on each side. 



Dimensions. Height at shoulder 10 to 12 inches, length from nose 

 to base of tail 18 to 22 inches, tarsus and hind foot about 5'3, 

 tail 1 to 1'5 : weight 5 to 6 Ib. A good-sized male skull from the 

 Shevroy hills measures 4'5 in extreme, and 3'85 in basal length, 

 and 2 in zygomatic breadth. 



Distribution. Ceylon and Southern India in forest at elevations 

 below 2000 feet, extending northwards to Orissa, Chutia Nagpur, 

 and the Eastern Central Provinces ; also along the Western Grhats 

 to north of Bombay. I have never heard of this animal in Bengal 

 proper, Behar, the North-west Provinces, Rajputana, the Bombay 

 Deccan away from the Western Ghats, Berar, nor the Central 

 Provinces west of Jubbulpore, Seoni, and Nagpur (Sterndale has 

 recorded its occurrence near Seoni). Hodgson included it in his list 

 of Nepal mammals, but appears never to have obtained a specimen, 

 though Bly th refers to a Nepalese specimen in his Catalogue. I think 

 the occurrence of this species in Northern India requires confirma- 

 tion. If it occurs, it must be very rare. Jerdon also questioned 

 its existence to the northward. 



Habits. A good account is given by Tickell. He says this species 

 " is found throughout the jungly districts of Central India (i. e. 

 Chutia Nagpur), but from its retired habits is not often seen. It 

 never ventures into open country, but keeps among rocks, in the 

 crevices of which it passes the heat of the day, and into which it 

 retires on the approach of an enemy. In these the female brings 

 forth her young, generally two in number, at the close of the 

 rains or the commencement of the cold season. The male keeps 

 with the female during the rutting-season (about June or July), 

 at other times they live solitary." 



Like all the Trac/ulidce this animal has a peculiar walk on the 

 tips of its hoofs, which gives the legs a rigid appearance, and there 

 is a common idea that it has no knee-joints. It is timid, but gentle 

 and easily domesticated, and has bred in confinement The only 

 sound it has been observed to utter is a feeble bleat. It is crepus- 

 cular in its habits. 



372. Tragulus javanicus. The little Malay Chevrotam. 



Moschus javanicus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i, p. 174 (1788). 



Mosclius kanchil, Raffles, Tr. L. S. xiii, p. 262 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1836, 



p. 64. 

 Tragulus kanchil, Gray, List Mam. B. M. p. 173 ; Cantor. J. A. S. B. 



xv, p. 268 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxvii, p. 276 ; id. Cat. p. 156 ; A. 



Milne-Edw. Ann. Sci. Nat. (5) ii, pp. Ill, 159, pi. ii, fi-. 3. pi. ix; 



Blyth, P.Z. S. 1864, p. 483; id. Mam. Birds Burma, p. 44; 



Thomas, P. Z. S. 1886, pp. 72, 79 ; W. Sclater, Cat. p. 189. 



