CERVID^E 



length of nasals 2J, length of upper series of cheek-teeth 

 inches. 



98. 3. 7. 18. Skull and skin, female. Ting-ling, Fo-kien. 

 Type. Presented by 0. B. Eickelt, Esq., 1898. 



D. Elaphodus cephalophus iehangensis. 



Elaphodus ichangensis, Lydekker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. ii, p. 169 

 Abstr, P.Z.S. 1904, p. 10. 



Typical locality Ichang, Hu-pe, Central China. 

 Apparently of the same approximate size as E. c. 

 michianus, but with a shorter and broader type of skull, in 



FIG. 9. SIDE VIEW OP SKULL OF ICHANG TUFTED DEER (Elaphodus 



cephalophus ichangensis), pr. mx. premaxilla ; pr. v. lachrymal pit. 



From Lydekker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904. 



which the basal length is only 6| inches, against 7J inches 

 in the typical race ; nasals (fig. 8, B) relatively short, and the 

 lachrymal pits (fig. 9) forming more regular, smaller, and 

 deeper ovals, of which the longer axis is more oblique to that 

 of the orbits than in any of the other races ; * general colour 

 dark brown, passing into blackish on the limbs ; tail wholly 

 white at tip, with only the basal two-thirds of the upper 

 surface dark. Length of nasals 2 inches ; length of upper 

 series of cheek-teeth 2-^- inches. 



* Certain other cranial characters given in the original description 

 appear to be dependent on age. 



