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Show 644 Mil. R. SWINHOE ON CHINESE MAMMALS. [Julie 23, called to mind some breeds of Rabbits. This Pig also bred freely with the red Pig, the offspring partaking of the characters of both parents. RUM1NANTIA. 73. HYDROPOTES INERMIS. (Hornless River-deer.) Hydropotes inermis, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 89, Pis. VI. & VII. rThis is the hornless so-called Hog-deer that resorts to the islands of the Yangtsze near Chinkiang, and is sold for venison in the Shanghai market. I have not noted its occurrence elsewhere in China. M. Alphonse M.-Edwards has pointed out to m e that in the shape of its skull and form of teeth this animal approaches the fossil Dremotherium feigneuxi, Geoffroy, from the Miocene of France. Hainan produces a Mouse-deer, which I have made out to be the Tragulus meminna. 74. CERVULUS REEVESI. (Reeves's Muntjac.) Cervulus reevesi, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1838, p. 105 ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 361. Found from Canton to Ningpo and in Formosa. In Hainan it is replaced by the allied Indian form, C. vaginalis (Bodd.). 75. CERVUS PSEUDAXIS, Eydoux & Souleyet. (The Formosan Spotted Deer.) Cervus taivanus, Blyth, J.A.S. xxxix.p.90 ; Sclater,P.Z.S. I860, p. 376, et 1862, p. 152, pl. xvi. ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 362. In the ' Transactions ' of the China Branch of the Asiatic Society at Hongkong for 1847, the President (Dr. Bowring) is reported to have said (p. xix) as follows:-" Keying sent me from Canton an adult male and female and a fawn of what I had hoped, before they arrived, might turn out a new species of Deer ; but they proved to be identical with the Fallow Deer which we have at home." This led me to suppose (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 169) that the C. dama, L., was also an inhabitant of China; but I have since visited the Viceroy's gardens at Canton, where some of the Deer still remain, and find that all in those grounds belong to the Formosan species, and have been bred from individuals introduced from the island. I was also misinformed as to the occurrence of Cervus axis in China. The animals of this species in Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, & Co.'s gardens in Hongkong (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 169) were brought from India, and not from Hankow. In Hainan the Panolia frontalis (Hodgson) (Cervus eldi, Guthrie) is found; but I have not heard of any species of spotted Deer occurring in China south of the river Yangtsze. The C. qjseudaxis is restricted to Formosa ; North China produces a larger allied species (the C. mantchuricus, mihi), and Japan a smaller form (the C. sika, Temm. & Schleg.). The Formosan species has now for some years been a constant inhabitant of the Society's Gardens, and has bred. Its development and change of coat have been observed and will shortly be illustrated by figures in the very excellent paper that Dr. Sclater has given to |