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Colour. Upper parts yellowish or rufous-brown, sides greyer. 

 Hair on back light brownish orange with black tips, no subterminal 

 pale ring. On the sides the basal portion of the hair is whitish. 

 Forehead and nape blacker, but the borders of the black area ill- 

 defined. Lower parts white, generally a brown median line on the 

 breast, the chest and lower abdomen white and an intermediate 

 tract brownish. Throat and fore neck brown, with 5 white bands 

 more or less distinct, a median band on the chest and two oblique 

 lines on each side in front on the throat. The white lines often 

 become blended together. Bump rufous ; tail brown above, white 

 below. 



Dimensions. Height 13 inches, nose to root of tail 28, tarsus and 

 hind foot 5'6 to 6, tail 5. I have been unable to obtain the 

 measurements of an adult skull ; those of the figure in Milne- 

 Edwards's paper are : extreme length 4-5 inches, basal length 4, 

 breadth 1-9, but these are probably small. 



Distribution. The Malay Peninsula, extending north into Southern 

 Tenasserirn, and south to Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. This species 

 was obtained at Bankasun in S. Tenasserim by Mr. W. Davison. 



Habits. So far as is known similar to those of the other species, 

 but the larger chevrotain is much less common in the Malay 

 Peninsula than T. javanicus. 



The Tylopoda, or Camels and Llamas, form a separate section of 

 the ruminant Artiodactyle Ungulates. They differ from other 

 ruminants in dentition, the full number of upper incisors being 

 present in the young and the outermost being persistent throughout 

 life. The canines are present in both jaws, and the lower canines 

 are distinct from the long procumbent and spatulate incisors. The 

 molars are selenodont and hypsodont, but one or more of the 

 anterior premolars is usually detached from the series and pointed. 

 Only two digits, the third and fourth, are present in each foot, and 

 there are no true hoofs, the ungual phalanges bearing nails and the 

 sole of the foot consisting of a broad fleshy pad. There are no 

 horns. There is no distinct third compartment of the stomach or 

 manyplies, the interior of the rumen or paunch has no villi on the 

 surface, and both it and the second compartment have within their 

 walls large pouches or cells in which water can be retained. The 

 placenta is diffuse. 



There are two living genera, Camelus and Lama (Auclienia), the 

 latter South American. Only two species of camel exist Camelus 

 bactrianus, the two-humped camel, found tame in Central Asia ; and 

 C. dromedarius, the single-humped camel, so extensively employed 

 in South-western Asia and Northern Africa. This is the animal 

 of which large herds are kept in North-western India. It is 

 unknown in the wild state, and although Bactrian Camels have 

 been found wild by Prejvalski and others in the deserts east of 

 Yarkand, there is but little doubt that these wild individuals are 

 descended from tame ancestors. Fossil remains of camels belonging 

 to two extinct species are found in the Pliocene Siwaliks of 

 Northern India. 



