1910.] A WAPITI AND A MrjNTJAC. 991 



overlooked. For the present, at any rate, I must leave this 

 yellow Muntjac without a definite name, suggesting, however, 

 that it is a local race of reevesi. 



Of the black, or, as it might preferably be called, the brown 

 Muntjac, Mr. Bridgeman has sent home the skins and skulls of 

 several specimens of both sexes. The geneial type of colouring 

 of the fur of the upper parts is the same as in the yellow Muntjac, 

 but the tint is much darker. In the male the fur is blackish 

 brown, with the hairs on the middle line of the back and the 

 whole of the rump faintly ringed with yellow. In the female 

 the yellow rings on the hairs ;ire more numerous and brighter in 

 coloui-, while the annulated area extends down to the flanks, so 

 that the whole body is gold-speckled. In both sexes there is a 

 dark nuchal stripe; and in the female, like that of reevesi, the 

 black frontal lines unite into a broad patch Vjetween the ears, 

 which is continued as the nuchal stripe. In the female the 

 ears ar-e black externally, whereas in the males they are yellow, 

 although with the basal half black in one example. 



The skull (text-fig. 144, B), while agreeing with that of the 

 yellow Muntjac in the great size of the lachiymal fossa, differs 

 in niiiny instances, at any rate, by the greater divergence of the 

 antler-pe<licles, and the invariable absence of any distinct lateral 

 projection on the nasals where they first come into contact with 

 the maxilke. 



This Muntjac aj)pears to be a new form, which I propose to 

 regard as a species, with the name of C. bridgeraaui, although 

 it may be only a larger race of reevesi. The mounted female 

 presented to the Museum by Mr. Bridgeman is the type. The 

 height of this specimen is 19 inches, and when freshly killed its 

 weight was 29 lbs. 



These brown Muntjacs live normally at a high elevation in the 

 Wei-Yas Shan Mountains of An-wei; and descend to the low 

 grounds only during spells of exceptional cold in mid-winter. 

 Information of their existence was given to Mr. Bridgeman by 

 Mr. Charles Maguire, a mining agent in An-wei; and the donor 

 suggested that the species should be named after that gentleman, 

 although this appeared to me, on the whole, inadvisable *. 



These Muntjacs Ijelong to the typical group of the genus, in 

 which the upper sui-face of the tail is chestnut ; but in their 

 generally dark colour, and especially in the black ears of the female, 

 they form in some degree a transition to the plum-coloured 

 group, in which the upper surface of the tail is dark ; the next 

 connecting species being 0. fece of Tenasserim, Avhich lacks the 

 head-crest of the Chinese crinifrons and the allied genus 

 Elaphodus. 



It may be added that 1 have given preliminary notices — without 

 speciflc names — of both the Wapiti and the Muntjac in the 

 ' Field' newspaper for April 1910. 



* A male skin shot by Mr. Maguire was received at the British Museum after 

 this paper was read. 



