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appears to have been unacquainted with Professor Milne-Edwards' descrip- 

 tion of Elaphodus published a few years previously. In 1876 the late Pro- 

 fessor A. H. Garrod demonstrated the unity of these two genera, and also 

 came to the conclusion that the Tibetan and Chinese animals were not specific- 

 ally distinguishable. This latter view was disputed by Sir Victor Brooke, 

 who was subsequently supported by Mr. O. Thomas. As already said, the 

 two forms are so similar that it is quite likely they should be regarded as 

 sub-species rather than species, but so long as they are placed in a genus 

 apart by themselves, this is a matter of little importance. 



Distribution. — Eastern China, in the neighbourhood of Ningpo, and 

 probably in other districts. 



Habits. — Beyond the statement that it is fond of the neighbourhood of 

 water and is found abundantly in the reed brakes bordering the rivers of 

 Eastern China, there seems nothing recorded of the habits of this little deer. 

 Ten specimens have been exhibited alive in the gardens of the London 

 Zoological Society between the years 1876 and 1884, ar, d there was one 

 some time ago at Woburn Abbey. The British Museum possesses mounted 

 skins of the male, female, and young. 



VI. The Miocene Muntjacs — Genus Dremotherium (Extinct) 



Dremotherium, Geoffrey, Rev. Enclyclop. vol. lix. p. 82 (1833) ; Filhol, 

 Ann. Set. Geo/, vol. xi. art. 1, p. 40 (1881). 



Palaomeryx, Meyer, Foss. Knochen und Z'dhne Georgesmund, p. 92 (1834) ; 

 Riitimeyer, Abh. schweiz. pal. Ges. vol. x. p. 79 (1883) ; Lydekker, Cat. 

 Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus. part ii. p. 119 (1885) ; Schlosser, Morphol. Jahrb. 

 1886, pp. 68 and 294. 



Micromeryx, Lartet, Notice sur la Col line de Sansan, p. 36 ( 1 85 1 ) . 



Amphitragiilus, Pomel, Cat. Methodique, p. 100 (1853). 



Propalaomeryx, Lydekker, Palceontologia Indica, ser. 10, vol. ii. p. 173 



(1883). 



Characters. — Lateral metacarpals in certain cases complete, but in some 

 of the later forms apparently entirely absent ; antlers wanting in the earlier 

 species, but present in some of the later ones ; when present, mounted on long 

 pedicles, from which they are imperfectly differentiated by a burr ; simply 



