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[*K VGU1 US K \\( nil pi nov. 



Adult mal ktilJ . I M. S. Mus. 



No. 154-'. 1 1. Collei ted il I : ; I) Penan; Island. 



,ui ii th March, [911, by I '.. Seimund. 



Diagnosis: Coloiu more intense than in T. k. 

 fidviventer. Upper parts Mars yellow, rather rufou on neck 

 and forelimbs; hind-limbs tinged with umber brown: back 

 much hi u ick and slightlj 



grizzled; head speckled brown and ochraceous. Chevron on 

 the foreneck mingled Mais yellow and bla< I ; 1 ollai band and 

 a line down the centre oi the breasl cleat Mars yellow; an 

 ochracei ms-orange Y-shape pati h streti hing from the posterioi 

 chest to th. abdomen: remaindei oi under-part, back ot 

 forelimbs, front of thighs and underside oi tail whiti 



Measurements : — Head and body. 4(15: tail. 70; hindfoot, 

 c. u., 115 ; ear, 37 mm. 



Skull : — greatest length, 99; condylobasal length, 91; 

 upper molar row (alveoli), 36 ; greatest breadth oi skull, 44 mm. 



Specimens examined.: — Three adults and a juvenile from 

 the type locality. 



Remarks: — These Penang annual- clo'seh resemble an 

 example of T. k. rubeus, Miller, of Bintang Island, Rhio 

 Archipelago, the specimen of which only differs in having a 

 darker head and an intensely black nape-stripe, but the 

 lattei feature is apparently not typical. I la juvenile animal 

 (hind-foot, c. ii., to- nun is much more fulvous as the whole 

 of the under-body and limbs ai with orange- 



ochraceous except for two small white spots on the chest ; 

 the hairs, however, have white bases throughout: also on 

 the throat then 1- a broad oblique fulvous band separating 

 the white behind the elnu from that ot the toreneck. The 

 last is a feature of fu G ty, but the Penang annuals 



are far too brightly coloured to be referred to that 1 > 



Tragulus kanchil kavus. 



dus ravus, Miller. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XV, 

 1902, p. [63. 



A slightly paler, duller race than /. k. fidviventer fo 

 southern part oi the Main Peninsula, yellowei and less 

 ochraceous, rather less blackened above, with the napi tripi 

 . less intense and distinct. The colouring oi the undersurface, 

 though a little paler, 1- dispo ed < md about 



the same proportion have the white of the chest similarly 

 separated from that of the abdomen [t appears neci 



recognise it as distinct from fulviventer th h erie foi eries, 



t a strongl) mat keel 1 v e. Some animals ti 

 different, however. 



Originally de cribed from I: Peninsular Siam, tin- 



known 1 angi from Pei hi north to 



