758 MR. A. H. GARROD ON LOPHOTRAGXIS MICHIANUS. [Nov. 21, 



projecting cores, sensible to the touch, beneath the elongated hairs 

 which form a flattened disk on the forehead." 



Shortly after its arrival the animal began to show symptoms of 

 paralysis, which led to its death on the 14th of July. The follow- 

 ing are measurements made a few hours after its death, before any 

 incisions had been made : — 



inches. 



From tip of nose to base of tail . . 36 



Fleshy tail 3 



Length of head 9£ 



Length of ear 5^ 



Greatest breadth of ear 3£ 



From the middle line of the back straight 



down to the elbow 10 



From the elbow to the wrist .... 5^ 



From the wrist to the base of hoofs 6^ 



From the middle line of back straight down 



to the knee 1 1 1 



From the knee to the ankle 9 



From the ankle to the base of the hoof . . 10 



A minute examination of the skull and skin of this specimen, in 

 association with the description and figures given of Elaphodus 

 cephalophus, made it quite evident to me that Michie's Deer is of 

 the same genus as it ; and I wrote to M. Milne-Edwards to ask him 

 some cpiestions of detail with reference to the Moupin species. In 

 reply that gentleman told me that, besides the specimen figured by 

 him, he has two other skins of the same species in very bad con- 

 dition, which much resemble Lophotragvs in their colour, and that 

 he believes they clearly show that the species is variable in its 

 coloration, and that the Deer described by Mr. Swinhoe is the same 

 as that obtained by Pere' David. At the same time he very cour- 

 teously sent me the two skins above mentioned, from the larger 

 (male) of which the figure of the skull given by him was taken, and 

 also gave me permission to remove the skull from the smaller (young 

 female) skin. This I have done, and find that in age it is exactly 

 the same as the Society's specimen. 



A comparison of the skins makes it immediately evident that the 

 animals from Moupin and those from Ningpo scarcely differ from 

 one another at all, and that Lophotragus michianus and Elaphodus 

 cephalophus are the same species, slightly modified in accordance with 

 the difference in their habitats. 



The following description of the species may serve to render its 

 characteristics more apparent: — 



Elaphodus cephalophus is a Deer of about the same size as the 

 Indian Muntjac (Cervulus tmtntjac), with minute simple antlers, 

 which are situated on slender convergent pedestals ; and with enor- 

 mous canine teeth. The supraorbital glands, found in the Muntjacs, 

 are not present ; nor is there a tufted gland on the outside of the 

 metatarsus. 



