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Tragulus kanchil, &)-ay, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 173, 1843; 

 Cantor, Journ. Asiat. 8oc. Bengal, vol. xv, p. 268, 1846 ; Blyth, 

 ibid. vol. xxvii, p. 276, 1859, Cat. Mamm. Mus. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, p. 15, 1863, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 483, Mamm. and 

 Birds Burma, p. 44, 1875 ; Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat., 

 Zool. ser. 5, vol. ii, pp. Ill and 159, pi. ix, 1864 ; Thomas, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1886, pp. 72 and 79 ; Jentinh and Bilttihofer, Notes 

 Leyden Mus. vol. xix, p. 64, 1897 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. 

 Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 189, 1891 ; Bonhote, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 ser. 7, vol. xi, p. 296, 1902 ; Stone and Rehn, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1902, p. 128 ; Schneider, Zool. Jahrh., Syst. 

 vol. xxiii, p. 138, 1905 ; Miller, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. xxvi, 

 p. 442, 1903, vol. xxxi, p. 56, 1906 ; Lyon, ibid. vol. xxxiv, p. 628, 

 1908. 



Tragulus pygmffius (ex Mosohus pygmseus, Erxleben), Gray, Cat. 

 TJngulata Brit. Mus. p. 250, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. 

 p. 99, 1872 (kanchil). 



Tragulus javanious, Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 5, 

 vol. ii, pp. 103 and 157, pi. ii, fig. 1, 1864 ; Blyth, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1864, p. 483 ; Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteal. Mus. B. Coll. 

 Surg. pt. ii, p. 326, 1884 ; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 385 ; 

 Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Ma/mm. p. 556, 1891 ; Floiver and 

 LydekJcer, Study of Mammals, p. 305, 1891 ; Thomas and Hartert, 

 Novit. Zool. vol. ii, p. 492, 1895 ; LydekJcer, Great and Small 

 Game of India, etc. p. 257, 1900, Game Animals of India, etc. 

 p. 276, 1907; Miller, Proc. Washington Ac. Sci. vol. iii, p. 115, 

 1901. 



Typical locality Sumatra. 



Size relatively small, basal skull-length about 3|- inches 

 (85 mm.) ; a naked glandular area on lower surface of chin 

 and upper part of throat; tarsus bare behind, and carpus 

 almost so ; tail relatively long ; typically the general colour 

 brown, tending more or less to rufous ; back in old individuals 

 nearly black, but always more or less mixed with rufous or 

 yellow, from some of the hairs having a yellow ring near the 

 end ; sides paler ; nape and upper surface of neck almost or 

 quite black, contrasting with the light brown of sides ; 

 under-parts white, variously mixed with light rufous and 

 usually with a median narrow brown or rufous line through- 

 out the breast, in front of this a brown cross-band and on 

 fore part of neck an arrowhead-like brown mark, sometimes 

 incomplete, with three white stripes, one median, within the 

 arrow-head, the other two diverging, one on each side, 

 outside of it, the last two joining on throat; rump rufous, 

 insides of thighs and intermediate space white ; tail rufous- 

 brown above, white below. 



