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tusks, and the absence of the metatarsal tufts. It was once thought that 

 the presence of frontal cutaneous glands formed a point of distinction, but 

 these are now known to be wanting in Cervu/us feee, as they probably are in 

 C. crinifrons. 



Distribution. — The south-eastern portion of the Eastern Holarctic region. 



1. The Tibetan Tufted Deer — Elaphodus cephalophus 



Elaphodus cephalophus, Milne-Edwards, Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. vii. p. 93 

 (1871), Recherch. Mamm. p. 353 (1872-74) ; Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876 

 p. 757, in part ; Brooke, ibid. 1878, p. 899. 



Characters. — General proportions much the same as in the Indian munt- 

 jac, the height at the shoulder being from about 22 to 23 inches. Hair 

 very coarse and pithy. General colour of pelage deep chocolate-brown ; 

 the hairs in front of a vertical line drawn through the shoulder-joint being 

 whitish at the base, and gradually becoming dark brown towards the tip, 

 quite close to which is a narrow white ring, thus producing a speckled 

 appearance in this region ; posteriorly to the line mentioned the white on 

 the hairs absent, each hair gradually darkening from the white base to 

 become rich brown at the tip over the sides and back, the colour being 

 deeper on the middle line of the latter, and also darkening on the legs, 

 which near the hoofs become almost or completely black ; in some cases a 

 white line on the front of the legs above the hoofs. Hair of frontal crest 

 forming a horse-shoe on the forehead of a nearly black colour, bordered by 

 a gray line above the eye ; ears whitish internally, the tip and the greater 

 part of the inner edge nearly pure white, and a transverse black band about 

 three-quarters of an inch in depth extending across the lower part of the 

 inner surface ; under surface of tail and inside of thighs and buttocks white. 



This species, which is the type of the genus, is only known to me by the 

 descriptions of Messrs. Milne-Edwards and Garrod, the type specimens 

 being in the Paris Museum, and the British Museum possessing no examples. 

 It was one of the animals first discovered by Pere David, in his journeys 

 through Tibet. 



Distribution. — Eastern Tibet, in the neighbourhood of Moupin. Nothing 

 appears to be ascertained as to the habits of this species. 



