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and tan grizzle extends only however from the shoulders to short of 

 the rump, on the last three inches above the root of the tail, the 

 ochraceous colouring entirely disappears. From between the ears 

 to between the shoulders is a jet black patch which is continued 

 downwards on each side, forming an almost complete collar. The 

 face between the eyes is coloured like the back. The cheeks, 

 except for a patch below the eye, are grey like the rump. 



The Ceylon hare while clearly of the nigricolUs type, is much 

 paler in colouring than the continental form, a pale buff being- 

 substituted for the tan of the back and feet, and the contrast 

 between the rump and dorsal area is very much less marked. The 

 most striking difference however is in the face. The forehead like 

 the back is much paler in the Ceylon animal and the grey cheeks 

 of the Coorg hare wanting ; in Ceylon individuals the cheeks are buff 

 and the pale streak through the eye is scarcely noticeable. In some 

 specimens from Dharwar, Kanara, Nilgiris, &c., the characters of the 

 Coorg series are somewhat modified, but the hare of the continent 

 still remains easily distinguishable from what I propose to call 



Lepus nigricolUs singhala subsp. nov. 



Dimensions of the type : — Head and body, 465 ; tail, 96 ; hind- 

 foot, 100; ear, 80. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. (Type from Kumbukkan, Uva.) 



%^e.— Adult male. B.M. No. 15.7.1.8. Original number 371. 

 Collected 19th July 1913, by Major Mayor, and presented to the 

 National Collection by the Bombay Natural History Society. 



Major Mayor took in all a dozen adult specimens, but all 

 unfortunately from the low country, so I am unable to judge 

 whether those from higher altitudes differ, or to what extent. 

 Kelaart records his belief that the Newera Eliya animal is larger 

 than that from the low country, but notes no other difference. 



B. — The Indian Ribbed-faced Deer or Muntjac. 



BY 



R. C. Wroughton. 



The Indian Group of Muntjacs extends through the Malay 

 Peninsula to Java, Sumatra, and the Islands of the Archipelago, as 

 far as Borneo. Only one form of the more Eastern, i.e., Chinese 

 Group, is found within our area, viz.: — M. fece which was taken on 

 Mount Muleyit in Tenasserim. The type, and onljT- known complete 

 specimen, is in the Genoa Museum, but the British Museum has 

 recently acquired a small fragment of the skin of another indivi- 

 dual. This species is distinguishable at sight from any other form 

 by its black and white tail. 



