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called to mind some breeds of Rabbits. This Pig also bred freely 
with the red Pig, the offspring partaking of the characters of both 
parents. 
RuMINANTIA. 
73. Hyprovotes 1nerMis. (Hornless River-deer.) 
Hydropotes inermis, Swinhoe, P. Z. 8.1870, p. 89, Pls. VI. & VII. 
This is the hornless so-called Hog-deer that resorts to the islands of 
the Yangtsze near Chinkiang, and is sold for venison in the Shanghai 
market. I have not noted its occurrence elsewhere in China. M. 
Alphonse M.-Edwards has pointed out to me that in the shape of its 
skull and form of teeth this animal approaches the fossil Dremothe- 
rium feigneuxi, Geoffroy, from the Miocene of France. 
Hainan produces a Mouse-deer, which I have made out to be the 
Tragulus meminna. 
74. CERVULUS REEVESI. (Reeves’s Muntjac. 
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Cervulus reevesi, Ogilby, P. Z.S. 1838, p. 105; Swinhoe, P. Z.S. 
1862, p. 361. 
Found from Canton to Ningpo and in Formosa. In Hainan it is 
replaced by the allied Indian form, C. vaginalis (Bodd.). 
75. Cervus pseupaxis, Eydoux & Souleyet. (The Formosan 
Spotted Deer.) 
Cervus taivanus, Blyth, J.A.S. xxxix.p.90 ; Sclater, P.Z.S. 1860, 
p- 376, et 1862, p. 152, pl. xvi.; Swinhoe, P. Z. 8. 1862, p. 362. 
In the ‘ Transactions ’ of the China Branch of the Asiatic Society at 
Hongkong for 1847, the President (Dr. Bowring) is reported to have 
said (p. xix) as follows :—“ Keying sent me from Canton an adult 
male and female and a fawn of what I had hoped, before they arrived, 
might turn out a new species of Deer; but they proved to be iden- 
tical with the Fallow Deer which we have at home.” This led me 
to suppose (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 169) that the C. dama, L., was also an 
inhabitant of China; but I have since visited the Viceroy’s gardens 
at Canton, where some of the Deer still remain, and find that all in 
those grounds belong to the Formosan species, and have been bred 
from individuals introduced from theisland. I was also misinformed 
as to the occurrence of Cervus axis in China. The animals of tiis 
species in Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, & Co.’s gardens in Hongkong 
(P. Z. S. 1864, p. 16) were brought from India, and not from Han- 
kow. In Hainan the Panolia frontalis (Hodgson) (Cervus eldi, 
Guthrie) is found; but I have not heard of any species of spotted 
Deer occurring in China south of the river Yangtsze. The C. 
pseudazis is restricted to Formosa; North China produces a larger 
allied species (the C. mantchuricus, mihi), and Japan a smaller form 
(the C. sika, Temm. & Schleg.). 
The Formosan species has now for some years been a constant in- 
habitant of the Society’s Gardens, and has bred. Its development 
and change of coat have been observed and will shortly be illustrated 
by figures in the very excellent paper that Dr. Sclater has given to 
