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 Porcula, and not the Sus leu- 

 corny stax, Temm., of Japan, which is said to be the original stock of 

 the Chinese Domestic Pig. 



15. Cervulus reevesii. 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 vrith 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 swinhoii. Gray, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 263, 

 PI. 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. sufnatrensis 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 moimtains 



