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UNGULATES. 



The other three species are Chinese. In Eastern Tibet and the neighbourhood 

 of Hamrchow there occurs Sclater's muntjac (C. laon/mans), characterised by the 

 bright yellowish-coloured hair of the head and neck, while that clothing the body and 

 limbs is of a much more sombre hue. The smallest member of the group is Reeves s 

 muntjac (C. reeveai), from Southern China and Formosa, in which the colour of the 

 whole fur is brighter than in any other species, while the pedicles of the antlers 

 diverge less from one another, and the hollow in the skull for the gland below the 

 eye is of unusually large size. , 



Finally the hairy-fronted muntjac (C. crinifrons), which is perhaps the hand- 

 somest of all and comes from the neighbourhood of Ningpo, is distinguished at a 

 dance by the long tuft of hair on the forehead and top of the head, in which the 

 minute antlers are almost entirely hidden. This species stands about 24 inches in 

 height at the shoulder ; and the general colour of its fur is brown. The upper part 

 of the head is, however, of a bright chestnut, which, with the white of the under-parts 

 and lower surface of the tail, forms a striking contrast to the sombre coloration ol 

 the body. 



The Tufted Deer. 

 Genus Elaphodus. 



Nearly related to the muntjacs are two small deer from Chinese territory, of 

 which the one known as Michie's deer (Elaphodus michianus) inhabits Eastern 



michie's deer. (From Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1876.) 



China while the other, which may be called the Tibetan tufted deer (E. <«**^ 

 is from Moupin, in Eastern Tibet. In the males of these deer, as represented in the 



