ON LOPHOTRAGUS MICHIANUS. 381 
4 inches 
Benge of oad 75. .6s0:5s cascigs wn viens Fe cene 94 
embers, OF COM spin. 5 a eine ee nid Sa se RNS : 
Greatest breadth of ear........-...-++20-+5 By 
From the middle line of the back straight down 
i Sin Na ass thaw oa seh au bi focal ke 10 
From the elbow to the wrist...............- 53 
From the wrist to the base of hoofs.......... + 
From the middle line of back straight down to 
PMO te Seating cunisa sak danidenss tans 11; 
From the knee to the ankle ................ 9 
From the ankle to the base of the hoof ...... 10 
A minute examination of the skull and skin of this specimen, in 
association with the description and figures given of Elaphodus 
cephalophus, made it quite evident to me that Michie’s Deer is of the 
same genus as it; and I wrote to M. Milne-Edwards to ask him some 
‘questions of detail with reference to the Moupin species. In reply 
that gentleman told me that, besides the Specimen figured by him, he 
has two other skins of the same species in very bad condition, which 
much resemble Lophotragus in their colour, and that he believes they 
clearly show that the species is variable in its coloration, and that the 
Deer described by Mr. Swinhoe is the same as that obtained by Pére 
_ David. At the same time he very courteously sent me the two skins 
above mentioned, from the larger (male) of which the figure of the 
skull given by him was taken, and also gave me permission to remove 
the skull from the smaller (young female) skin. This I have done, 
and find that in age it is exactly the same as the Society’s specimen. 
A comparison of the skins makes it immediately evident that the 
animals from Moupin and those from Ningpo scarely differ from one 
another at all, and that Lophotragus michianus and Elaphodus cepha- 
lophus are the same species, slightly modified in accordance with the 
difference in their habitats. 
The following description of the species may serve to render its 
characteristics more apparent :— 
Elaphodus cephalophus is a Deer of about the same size as the 
e Indian Muntjac (Cervulus muntjac), with minute simple antlers, 
) which are situated on slender convergent pedestals; and with enor-- 
mous canine teeth. The supraorbital glands, found in the Muntjacs, 
are not present; nor is there a tufted gland on the ontside of the 
metatarsus. 
The hair is coarse and slightly quill-like. In the Moupin speci- Page 759. 
mens it is of two kinds as regards general coloration—all in front of 
a vertical line drawn through the shoulder-joint, with the exceptions 
to be mentioned below, being whitish at the base, and gradually 
