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380 ON LOPHOTRAGUS MICHIANUS. 
61. ON THE CHINESE DEER NAMED LOPHOTRAGUS 
MICHIANUS BY MR. SWINHOE.* 
(Plate XXVIII.) : 
At a meeting of this Society in 1874 (‘‘ Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society,” 1874, p. 453), Mr. R. Swinhoe described a small Deer sent 
him from the neighbourhood of Ningpo by Mr. Michie, of Shanghai, 
and gave it ‘the name Lophotragus michianus, after its discoverer. 
The specimen consisted of a skin, without the skull or any other 
bones. Mr. Sclater, at the time, suggested that it might be the 
Elaphodus cephalophus, which had been described shortly beforet by 
M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards from specimens obtained by Pére David 
in Moupin. Mr. Michie informed Mr. Swinhoe that the specimen was 
a female; and Dr. Peters, of Berlin, who carefully examined it before 
it was mounted for the national collection in that city, has courteously 
answered questions which I put to him with reference to it (the type) 
in the following words :—‘It does not show a trace of horns... . 
It shows well developed teats, and not a trace of a penis; there is no 
trace of an impression on the lower lip, as would have been the case if 
it had been furnished with the male tusks, figured from imagination 
in Swinhoe’s figure.’”’ From what will be said further on it can be 
evidently inferred that the type specimen is a female. 
A second specimen, a living male, of the same Deer was purchased 
by the Society on February 12th last from Mr. Michie’s agent. It 
also came from the Ningpo district. Mr. Sclater’s note with reference 
to it, together with a woodcut of the animal, will be found in the 
“Proceedings” for this year. In this he tells us that “the canines 
project from the sides of the mouth, as in Hydropotes. There are no 
external antlers; but there are hard projecting cores, sensible to the 
touch, beneath the elongated hairs which form a flattened disk on 
the forehead.”’ 
Shortly after its arrival the animal began to show symptoms of 
paralysis, which led to its death on the 14th of July. The following 
are measurements made a few hours after its death, before any 
incisions had been made :— 
inches 
From tip of nose to base of tail ............. 36 
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* “Proceedings of the Zoological Society,” 1876, pp. 757-765. Pl. LXXVII. 
Read, Nov. 21, 1876. 
+ “Nouv. Arch. du Mus. 1874, Bull.” p. 93. 
ft [Loe. cit. p. 273.] 
