CERVID/E 25 



the grizzling extending all over the back and part of the 

 flanks ; imder-parts drab ; hairs white at base."— E. 0. W. 



13. 8. 22. 133. Skull, with antlers, and skin. JSTagarhol, 



Coorg ; collected by G. C. Shortridge, Esq., Feb., 1913. Type. 



Pn-Keiifeil hj the Bombay Natural History Society, 1913. 



M.— Muntiacus muntjak, subsp. 



Typical locality Island of Hainan, China. 



The two following specimens indicate a large rufous 

 muntjak apparently allied to the Bornean and Malay races 

 of the present species : — 



70. 2. 10. 25-26. Two skins. Hainan; collected by 

 R. Swinhoe, Esq. rurchaml, 1870. 



IF. i\IUNT[ACUS LACEYMANS. 



Cervulus lacrymans, Milne-Edtvards, Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. vii, 

 p. 93, 1871, Recli. Mamm. p. 348, pis. Ixiii and Ixiv, 1874; 

 Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 40, 1878, p. 899; Anderson, 

 Zool. Besults Yunnan Exped. p. 338, 1878 ; LydeJcker, Horns 

 and Hoofs, p. 316, 1893, Deer of All Lands, p. 208, 1898,* Game 

 Animals of India, etc. p. 263, 1907 ; Hilzheimer , Ahh. Mus. 

 Naturk. Magdeburg, vol. i, p. 66, 1906; Ward, Records of Big 

 Game, ed. 6, p. 81, 1910, ed. 7, p. 81, 1914. 



Muntiacus lacrymans, Allen, Bull. Mus. Harvard Goll. vol. xl, 

 p. 204, 1912. 



Typical locality Sze-chuan, Western China. 



Type in Paris Museum. 



Smaller (shoulder-height about 19 inches) and yellower 

 than the preceding species, with the whole forehead (exclu- 

 sive of the black pedicle-streaks), occiput, and backs of ears 

 yellowish brown or yellow ; lower part of face varying from 

 rufous to blackish ; no dark neck-stripe ; general body-colour 

 bright speckled rufous brown, with a tinge of bluish; lachry- 

 mal pits of skull smaller than orbits, from which they are 

 separated by a narrow bar, and not occupying entire surface 

 of lachrymal bone ; basal length of skull typically about 

 7 inches,! length of upper series of cheek-teeth not recorded 

 in typical race. Antlers always small. 



■* C. lachrymans. 

 t Teste Brooke. 



