1862.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE MAMMALS OF FoRMOSA. 361 
These consist of long stone walls, three or four feet high, with ditches 
on either side, running from ravine to ravine, midway up the higher 
hills, where these animals frequent. In places where the barri- 
cades are broken to admit of the passage of the ascending footpath, 
close gates are constructed, which are carefully shut every evening. 
The group of hills whence these pigs descend in greatest number 
reaches to the height of 3000 feet. I took the trouble to ascend 
this range in order to extend my acquaintance with those interesting 
animals ; but though I found their beaten tracks all over the sum- 
mits, fresh dung scattered about in all directions, the ground but 
lately rooted up in numerous places, and several lair-like spots under 
the rocks, I was not able to get a view of a single pig. I was told by 
the natives that they herd together in large numbers, and dwell in 
security during the day in caverns in the rocks, and in the twilight 
follow one another in single file down to their selected feeding-grounds; 
that they are uncommonly wary, and very difficult to shoot; that 
the boars especially are very dangerous, when wounded ; and that the 
only chance they have of procuring them is by occasionally picking 
up a suckling that has strayed away from its mother. 
I am inclined to think this Pig is a Porcuda, and not the Sus leu- 
comystax, Temm., of Japan, which is said to be the original stock of 
the Chinese Domestic Pig. 
15. CervuLus REEVeEsII. Chinese, Kiang. 
I procured and brought away two females and a young one of this 
Munt-jac, as well as a skull. My specimens are identical with those 
from China. This species affects the lower ranges of hills which are 
covered with long coarse grass and tangled thicket. It is there usu- 
ally found in small herds, basking in the sun, or lying in hidden lairs. 
They are very seldom approached near, except by stealth. The least 
noise startles them, and they dash away with bounds through the 
yielding grass, occasionally showing their rounded backs above the 
herbage. They have, however, their regular creeps and passes through 
the covert, near which the natives lie*when stalking them, while others 
drive them. The little startled creatures hurry from danger along 
these beaten tracks, and are then picked off with the matchlock. In 
captivity they soon become very docile, even when taken in the adult 
state. The flesh of this animal is very tender and palatable. In 
China the species occurs in all the hilly country, from Canton to 
Ningpo; but I do not think its range extends much higher north. 
16. CapricorNis swinnorl, Gray, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 263, 
Pl. XXXV. 
This tawny species of Deer Goat, which Dr. Gray has done me the 
honour to name after me, differs in the shape of the skull, as well as in 
colour, from C. crispa, Temm., of Japan. It is of a much smaller 
stature than C. bubalina, Hodgs., of the Himalayas, but has its nearest 
ally in C. sumatrensis of the Eastern Archipelago. I brought home 
with me the skins and skulls of an adult pair, which are now deposited 
in the British Museum. In the northern range of higher mountains 
