Tufted Deer 



2. Michie's Tufted Deer — Elaphodus michianus 



Lophotragus michianus, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 452; Garrod, 

 ibid. 1876, p. 757, plate lxxvi. 



Elaphodus michianus, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 900 ; Styan, ibid. 

 1886, p. 268. 



Plate XVII, Jig. 1 



Characters — Very closely allied to the last, from which it is chiefly 

 or entirely distinguished by small differences of coloration. General hue 



Fig. 58. — Head of Immature Male of" Michie's Tufted Deer. From Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876. 



more decidedly iron-gray, or pepper-and-salt colour, the individual hairs 

 being whitish with brown tips, and only a few of those occupying a very 

 small area in front of the ear being ringed with white ; lips, eye-brows, 

 and cheeks paler ; forehead and crest of male brown, of female lighter ; 

 under-parts slightly lighter, and a little white showing on the front of the 

 thigh. Young very similarly coloured, but no pale eyebrow, and a row of 

 not very distinctly marked white spots on each side of the back, followed by 

 very faint traces of a second outer row. 



The history of this species is somewhat remarkable. It was originally 

 described under the name of Lophotragus by the late Mr. Swinhoe, who 



