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soles — points which have caused Drs. Baird* and Couesf to separate 

 that species as a subgenus Oryzomys. It differs strikingly, however, 

 not only in size and coloration, but in the long and nearly naked tail. 

 In the latter it rather agrees with the forms named //. (Tylomys) 

 nadicaudus by Dr. Peters £ and Neomys panamensis by Gray § ; 

 but these have a different type of skull, the supraorbital edges being 

 produced laterally instead of vertically. From the character of the 

 feet, I should expect that H. couesi would prove to be at least par- 

 tially aquatic in its habits. 



3. On the Chinese Deer named Luphotrayus michianus by 

 Mr. Swinhoe. By A. H. Garrod, M.A., F.R.S., Pro- 

 sector to the Society. 



[Eeceived November 7, 187(1.] 



(Plate LXXVI.) 



At a meeting of this Society in 1874 (P. Z. S. 187-4, p. 453), 

 Mr. li. Swinhoe described a small Deer sent him from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Ningpo by Mr. Michie, of Shanghai, and gave it the 

 name Lophotragus michianus, after its discoverer. The specimen 

 consisted of a skin, without the skull or any other bones. Mr. 

 Sclater, at the time, suggested that it might be the Elaphodus cepha- 

 lophus, which had been described shortly before || by M. Alphonse 

 Milne-Edwards from specimens obtained by Pere David in Moupin. 

 Mr. Michie informed Mr. Swinhoe that the specimen was a female ; 

 and Dr. Peters, of Berlin, who carefully examined it before it was 

 mounted for the national collection in that city, has courteously 

 answered questions which I put to him With reference to it (the 

 type) in the following words: — "It does not show a trace of horns. 

 ... It shows well-developed teats, and not a trace of a penis ; 

 there is no trace of an impression on the lower lip, as would have 

 been the case if it had been furnished with the male tusks, figured 

 from imagination in Swinhoe's figure." From what will be said 

 further on it can be evidently inferred that the type specimen is a 

 female. 



A second specimen, a living male, of the same Deer was purchased 

 by the Society on February 12th last from Mr. Michie' s agent. It 

 also came from the Ningpo district. Mr. Sclater's note wfth 

 reference to it, together with a woodcut of the animal, will be found 

 in the ' Proceedings' for this year (anted, p. 273). In this he tells 

 us that " the canines project from the sides of the mouth, as in 

 Hydropotes. There are no external antlers ; but there are hard 



* Mamm. N. Amer. p. 458. t Pro.-. Acad. P ilad. 1874, p. 183 



J Monatsb. Ak. Berlin, 1866, p. 404. 



§ Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist . 4th ser. xii. p. 417- 



|| Nouv. Arch, du Mus. 1*7-1, Bull. p. 93. 



Proc. Zool. Soc.~ 1876, No. L. 50 



