1877.] SIR V. BROOKE ON THE DEER OF THE PHILIPPINES. 57 
inches. metre, 
Extent of upper premolars, ...............+.. «00-9 16, -,0:040 
AS ae TOD ETE SS tle A ee eres Sere 2 0:050 
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93 6), @  MIOLATS, «-,<sc.che Sibel Ske eit he Sb ctabatee chs 2°33 0:058 
Peete Or hOLAs, .. Ihwel O) wl dienes 8G hisas 2 hO 0°455 
mA LOK Gee ee le eRerenG hy Stee 10 0°253 
Circumference of burr ........................ 75  0°190 
if 7 air Aes ROR Oe CIR See ee eer 0°125 
CERVUS NIGRICANS, sp. nov. (Plates IX. & X.) 
1870. Cervus mariannus? Sclat. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 279. 
Adult female.—External characters. Hair of moderate length, 
rather coarse. General colour blackish brown, slightly tinged with 
rufous. Entire face, upper parts of the neck, and shoulders almost 
black. Limbs from the carpal and tarsal joints downwards bluish 
grey-brown. Belly rufous brown. Under lip and inside of thighs 
white. Tarsal gland plainly marked by a spot of yellowish white 
hair. Ears oval, decidedly small, almost quite naked externally. 
Muzzle coriaceous, ample, its upper border running directly across 
from the upper angles of the nares, which it completely surrounds 
inferiorly. 
Skull (Plate X.).—General form. Portions of the frontals and 
parietals forming the roof of the cranial cavity boldly convex, both 
in a lateral and antero-posterior direction; facial portion rather 
short, depressed and much widened laterally as far as the anterior 
premolar, from which point forwards the facial portion of the skull 
is reduced in a marked manner both in width and length. 
Anteorbital fossa of moderate depth, situated in the anterior portion 
of the facial plate of the lacrymal. 
Anteorbital vacuity of moderate dimensions. Malar divided by a 
longitudinal suture’ into two subequal parts (Plate X. a). Pre- 
maxillee remarkably small, their greatest length very little exceeding 
that of the upper molar series. Occipital condyles large. Auditory 
bullze small, their external surface irregular, with a long pointed late- 
rally compressed styloid process. A large depression for the tympa- 
nohyal, which is not completely enclosed by the definite vaginal pro- 
cess which depends from the floor of the prolonged exterual auditory 
meatus, 
Squamous portion of the squamosal remarkably low. 
Teeth very large; the diameter of each of the upper molars in 
a transverse direction exceeds its longitudinal diameter. Upper and 
under molars with very small cylindrical supplementary columns. 
Canines absent. 
Skeleton.—14 pairs of ribs. 
inches. metre. 
ipieht nthe Shoulder, 22a imie0 hj. 21.0 00-6 24 0-610 
Length from point of shoulder to ischium.. 27 0-685 
1 Tt is possible that this suture is an individual and not a specific character. 
