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skulls in the collection being the same in this respect as the 

 South Shensi skull. 



Colour. — -As regards the colour of the various species I could 

 learn nothing from Heude's collection, as I could not find any 

 skins. However, I had the opportunity of looking over several 

 skins in the possession of Mr. A. H. Rasmussen of Chinkiang. 

 All those he showed me had been secured by himself in the 

 vicinity. I was struck by the fact that though the underwool 

 in these pelts was brown and the long hairs black, yet the latter 

 had such a large portion of their length white or cream that it 

 gave the whole skin a very light appearance. This characteristic 

 occurs only in extremely old specimens of the pigs from Shansi. 

 There the young males are brown and the old males nearly black. 

 Very young specimens of the Yang-tze species have the coat of a 

 rich chestnut-colour, which is not the case with the Shansi species. 

 I have been to 14 by Mr. Lewis Broome, who has shot wild boars 

 in Shansi as well as in Manchuria, that those from Manchuria are 

 even blacker than the Shansi ones. The white whisker-like patch 

 on the cheek is more pronounced in S. paludosus than in the pigs 

 from Shansi. 



From the foregoing comparisons and notes it would seem that 

 there are the following distinct species of Pig represented in 

 Pere Heude's collection, all others given in his papers and 

 descriptions being invalid under the present generally accepted 

 system of classification : — 



1 . Sus paludosus Heude. Yang-tze Valley. Type from Chin- 



kiang, Kiang-su, China,. No number. 



2. Sus moupinensis M.-Edw. The Upper Han, South Shensi, also 



Ssuchuan and Kansu, China. 



3. Sus gigas Heude. Forests of Manchuria and the Primorsk, 



Type from Vladivostok. No number. 



4. Sus coreanus Heude. Fusan, Corea. Type from Fusan. No 



number. 



5. Sus meles Heude. Kuangsi, South China. Type same. No 



number or description, but a distinct species. 

 0. Sus leucomystax T. et S. Central Japan (specimen in Heude's 

 collection wrongly named S. nipponicus), 



Genus Cervus. 



The Cervus-sika group of the genus Cervus is represented in 

 the Sikawei Museum by a fine series of skulls and skins, but as 

 the latter are now in a poor condition from the ravages of insects 

 and the effects of damp, the following notes and observations are 

 based chiefly upon an examination of the skulls. 



The range of the Sika in China was formerly very extensive, 

 but, owing to the increasing demand for " hartshorn," made from 

 the horns, when in velvet, of this deer, the animal is practically 

 extinct in most places and is nowhere plentiful. 



