Hairy-Fronted Muntjac 



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chestnut ; a V-shaped faint dark mark near the pedicles ; limbs and under- 

 pays dark blackish brown, except the abdomen, which is whitish ; inner 

 side of hind-legs rufous chestnut ; inner surface of thighs, and sides and 

 lower surface of tail pure white ; upper surface of tail and a line extending 

 on to the rump black. Length of tail about 9 inches. Frontal glands 

 probably absent. 



The above description is taken from a male specimen forming the type, 

 which was purchased by the Zoological Society in 1884 from Mr. Michie, 

 and is now mounted in the British Museum. From the small size of the 

 antlers and tusks, it is not improbably immature, so that the height may 

 really be greater than stated above. 

 The skin of a female was procured 

 in 1886 by Mr. F. W. Styan, who 

 gives the following description of its 

 colour : — " Upper -parts rich dark 

 glossy brown, mixed with black, 

 darkest along the middle of the 

 back. Belly and inner sides of thighs 

 pure white, the line of demarcation 

 very distinct, except in the lower 

 part of the thighs, where it merges 

 gradually into dark brown. Tail 

 above black, below pure white ; a 

 pale patch under the forearm ; rest 

 of the under-parts dark brown. The 



brown of the neck gradually passes into reddish brown on the sides of the 

 head ; the nose-ridge dark brown ; the longitudinal slits form a black V, 

 the colour between them is a bright reddish brown, which turns into a fiery 

 orange-brown in the tuft of bristly hair, rather more than two inches long, 

 which rises from the top of the forehead. On each side of this is a very 

 small bony pedicle surmounted by short tufts of hair of the same colour. 

 Ears at the base of the same hue, but not quite so bright, and fading into 

 brown on the upper part." 



In the tuft on the forehead, the small rounded ears, the coarse hair, 

 general coloration, and perhaps also the small size of the antlers, this species 

 serves to connect the more typical muntjacs with the tufted deer. 



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Fig. 57. — Head of Hairy- fronted Muntjac. 

 (Rowland Ward, Records of Big Game.) 

 The tusks are not shown. 



