382 ON LOPHOTRAGUS MICHIANUS. 
becoming dark-brown towards the tip, quite close to which there is 
a distinctly marked narrow white ring. This white ring near the 
extremity of each hair gives a speckled appearance to the parts 
covered with it. 
Over all the body behind the above-mentioned line this white ring 
is absent; and each hair, from being white at the root, gradually 
darkens to become of a rich brown at the tip, over the sides and back 
of the animal, more pronounced along the middle line—at the same 
time that, whilst deepening in intensity down the legs, below the 
carpus and tarsus the colour is almost black itself, as are the hoofs. 
In the female figured by M. Milne-Edwards, which is of a more rufous 
tint generally than the pair of skins lent by him to me, there is, as is 
sometimes the case in Cervulus reevesi, a white line just above the 
hoofs. 
The under surface of the tail is white, as is also the hair in the 
pudendal region. 
Much resembling, though more developed than in the females and 
the young males of, the genus Cervulus, there is a crest of lengthy 
deep-brown, almost black hair arranged in a horse-shoe shape in the 
frontal region. It is anteriorly that the crest is deficient, the short 
speckled hair of the nose extending backwards, at the same time that 
it lengthens, to enter the interior of the enclosure thus formed. This 
crest is slightly prolonged between the ears as a pointed process, with 
the equally dark hair of the base of the exterior of which it does not 
blend, a narrow speckled isthmus intervening. M. Milne-Edwards 
tells us* that the interior of the ears is whitish, and that the tips of 
these organs, as well as the greater part of their inner edge, are of a 
nearly pure white. A transverse black bar extends across the inner 
surface of the ear, about three quarters of an inch broad. Along the 
lateral margin of the outside of the horse-shoe crest the short hair 
forms a light grey line in front of the eye, becoming reddish-brown 
behind it. The long hair of the crest itself is directed backwards. 
In the young male specimen from the hills near Ningpo which 
forms the subject of the present paper, the only hair which is ringed 
is situated in the front of the base of each ear, occupying an extremely 
small area. Elsewhere the chocolate-brown of the Moupin examples 
is replaced by greyish-black, each hair being white for a considerable 
distance from its base. The face and neck are therefore not speckled 
or brown, but uniformly dark grey. The head is figured, as it 
appeared immediately after death, in the iii oi dain drawing 
(Plate [28] LXXVI.). 
The skull of the Ningpo Hlaphodus cannot be said to differ essen- 
* Loe. cit. p. 355. 
