1874.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON A NEW DEER FROM NINGPO. 453 



from the Ningpo country. It is a dark iron-grey or pepper-and-salt 

 colour, like some Scotch terriers, with white tips to its ears, square- 

 built (that is, straight back and pointed hip), with very short tail. On 

 its forehead is a thick black maue like the bristles of a boar. The 

 skull has, unfortunately, got smashed — the people say by the struggles 

 of the animal (they caught it alive) ; but I will send you as much 

 of the skin and skeleton as 1 can. It has the lachrymal sinus, but 

 not so large as the Muntjacs ; in size the beast about equals the 

 Muntjac. When I say this is a new deer, I only mean it is new to me, 

 though it may be familiar to you." 



Iu due course the skin came home, but not a fragment of the skull. 

 I drew Mr. Sclater's attention to the animal ; and he said it might pos- 

 sibly be theElaphodus cephalophus lately described byAlphonse Milne- 

 Edwards from specimens sent by Pere David from Moupin. This gen- 

 tleman, to whom 1 wrote on the subject, very kindly sent me a copy 

 of the coloured plate of the female with head of the male, and one of 

 the plates of the male skull intended to illustrate his outcoming work 

 ' Recherches pour servir a 1' Hist. Nat. des Mammiferes.' 



In his later letters Mr. Michie informs me that his animal is known 

 to the natives as the " Shanyang," or wild goat, that it was reported 

 to him that the specimen was a female, and that on his describing it 

 to Pere David, who came soon after to Shanghai, the worthy priest 

 said that he had procured the same species in the mountains of the 

 north-west. Mr. Michie sent a photograph of the animal, taken 

 while still fresh. 



A short description of the Elaphodus cephalophus is given, with 

 the initials A. M.-E., in a note at the foot of Pere David's list of Chi- 

 nese Mammals, in the ' Nouv. Arch, du Mus.' Bull. p. 93. With 

 this Mr. Michie's animal agrees except as regards horns. David's 

 animal had, according to this note, "comes d'un pouce de long." 

 Michie's specimen has none ; and the skin shows no sign of any. It 

 agrees in colour with the description, and thus differs notably from 

 the drawing of the female, which is coloured chestnut-red, and has 

 scarcely any of the bristly crest, a very conspicuous character in our 

 specimen. It also lacks the canine teeth ; Michie's skin bears marks 

 of teeth on the lips — though, as the skull is unfortunately away, no 

 teeth are iu place. It has also other indications of the male sex ; 

 and for the present I think we may be justified in taking to ourselves 

 the benefit of the doubt, and accept this animal as a new form, for 

 which I would propose the name 



Lophotragus michianus, nov. gen. et. spec. (Plate LIX.) 



I cannot, unfortunately, give any cranial characters, not a vestige 

 of the skull, as I have said before, being left within the skin. Coat 

 consisting of coarse thick hair, which gives the animal a very goat-like 

 appearance ; it has no indications of horns ; but a thick tuft of coarse 

 hair springs from the forehead, about 2 inches long, and lies back 

 between base of ears. The lachrymal slit is about "8 inch long ; and 

 the nostrils are confluent with the upper lip. Its chin abounds with 

 long bristly hair ; its hoofs are rather long and blackish. 



