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Show 1876.] MR, A. H. GARROD ON LOPHOTKAGUS MICHIANUS. 759 The hair is coarse and slightly quill-like. In the Moupin specimens it is of two kinds as regards general coloration-all in front of a vertical line drawn through the shoulder-joint, with the exceptions to be mentioned below, being whitish at the base, and gradually becoming dark-brown towards the tip, quite close to which there is a distinctly marked narrow white ring. This white ring near the extremity of each hair gives a speckled appearance to the parts covered with it. Over all the body behind the above-mentioned line this white ring is absent; and each hair, from being white at the root, gradually darkens to become of a rich brown at the tip, over the sides and back of the animal, more pronounced along the middle line-at the same time that, whilst deepening iu intensity down the legs, below the carpus and tarsus the colour is almost black itself, as are the hoofs. In the female figured by M . Milne-Edwards, which is of a more rufous tint generally than the pair of skins lent by him to me, there is, as is sometimes the case in Cervulus reevesi, a white line just above the hoofs. The under surface of the tail is white, as is also the hair in the pudendal region. Much resembling, though more developed than in the females and the young males of the genus Cervulus, there is a crest of lengthy deep-brown, almost black hair arranged in a horse-shoe shape in the frontal region. It is anteriorly that the crest is deficient, the short speckled hair of the nose extending backwards, at the same time that it lengthens, to enter the interior of the enclosure thus formed. This crest is slightly prolonged between the ears as a pointed process, with the equally dark hair of the base of the exterior of which it does not blend, a narrow speckled isthmus intervening. M. Milne-Edwards tells us* that the interior of the ears is whitish, and that the tips of these organs, as well as the greater part of their inner edge, are of a nearly pure white. A transverse black bar extends across the inner surface of the ear, about three quarters of an inch broad. Along the lateral margin of the outside of the horse-shoe crest the short hair forms a light grey line in front of the eye, becoming reddish brown behind it. The long hair of the crest itself is directed backwards. In the young male specimen from the hills near Ningpo which forms the subject of the present paper, the only hair which is ringed is situated in the front of the base of each ear, occupying an extremely small area. Elsewhere the chocolate-brown of the Moupin examples is replaced by greyish-black, each hair being white for a considerable distance from its base. The face and neck are therefore not speckled or brown, but uniformly dark grey. The head is figured, as it appeared immediately after death, in the accompanying drawing (Plate L X X V L ). The skull of the Ningpo Elaphodus cannot be said to differ essentially from the Moupin specimens. Although there are exquisite figures in the ' Recherches pour servir a l'histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes' f of the skull of the adult male, M . Milne-Edwards has most * Loc. cit. p. 355. t Atlas, pis. 6(1 & 67. 50* |
