1864. ] MR. E. BLYTH ON SUNDRY MAMMALIA. 483 
Gray, are united under the latter name by M. -Edwards, who acknow- 
ledges five specific forms, as 7’. meminna, T. javanicus, T. age. Ps 
kanchil, and T. stanleyanus. 
T. meminna, seu Meminna indica, Gray, inhabits India with Cey ‘lon } 
exclusively—the M. malaccensis, Gray, differing in no respect what- ’ 
ever, and most assuredly being as foreign to the Malayan peninsula 
as 7’. stanleyanus is to Ceylon, even though a specimen of the latter 
may have chanced to find its way to England wd Ceylon. Long- 
experienced observers in that island, as Mr. EK. L. Layard and the 
late Dr. Kelaart, Dr. Templeton, Mr. Brodie, Sir J. Emerson Ten- 
nent, and others, are not likely to have overlooked so conspicuous a 
little animal as a second species of Chevrotain, did it really exist as 
an inhabitant of Ceylon. Both in its more bulky form and in its 
markings, the Meminna singularly resembles the Hyomoschus aqua- 
ticus of West Africa. 
The name javanicus is rightly assigned by M.-Edwards to a small 
and very distinct species, which I described by the name 7’. pe/andoe 
in the Journ. As. Soc. B. xxvii. 277, remarking that ‘this species 
accords better than any other with Buffon’s figure of le Chevrotain 
de Java.” I have reason to doubt, however, that it inhabits the 
Malayan peninsula, the 7’. javanicus of the late Dr. Cantor’s catalogue 
of the Mammalia of that peninsula (J. A. S. B. xv. 262) being the 
comparatively large 7. napu, F. Cuvier and A. M.-Edwards, which 
has been undistinguished as a separate species by Dr. Gray. 
The common Chevrotain of the Malayan peninsula is 7’. kanchil, \ 
the range of which extends to the southern Tenasserim provinces as/ 
high as Yé, beyond which no species of the group has been observed 
northward in the provinces east of the Bay of Bengal. The T. affnis, 
Gray, was originally founded on a specimen of 7’. kanchil, believed to 
be from Malacca, which wants the ordinary medial line on the chest ; 
but those sent by the late M. Mouhot from Cambegia, and likewise 
referred by Dr. Gray to his 7. afinis, would seem to be of a race in 
which that medial line is normally absent, and which is also more 
uniformly coloured than the others, being not so dark, with the pos- 
terior nuchal streak little more than indicated, and the lines in front 
of the neck are not nigrescent, but of the same hue as the back. , 
The T. napu also inhabits the Malayan peninsula, but is there much | 
rarer than the 7. kanchil, and the two bear the native names adopted 
as their specific appellations ; but it appears from Dr. Cantor that the 
T. kanchil is denominated Pelandoc by some Malays, while elsewhere 
it is not unlikely that the 7’. javanicus may be specially so designated, 
by people who know it as a different species from the 7. kanchil. In 
Calcutta, the 7’. kanchil is the only kind which is at all commonly to 
be procured of the dealers in animals, and I have never seen 7’. yava- 
nicus in their possession, and Tragulus meminna but rarely. 
T. stanleyanus is given by M.-Edwards from the Sunda Islands. / 
I have seen numerous examples of this race, and among them some 
which were so far intermediate in colouring as to lead to a suspicion 
that it is no other than a local race or variety of T. napu, though, 
in general, the markings of the neck are broader and less abruptly 
