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Show 1877.] SIR V. BROOKE ON THE DEER OF THB PHILIPPINES. 57 inches. metre. Extent of upper premolars 1'6 0*040 molars 2 0*050 ,, lower premolars 1' 1 0*027 „ molars 2*3 0*058 Length of horns 18 0*455 brow-antler 10 0*253 Circumference of burr 7*5 0*190 „ „ beam 5 0*125 CERVUS NIGRICANS, sp. nov. (Plates IX. & X.) 1870. Cervus mariannus'! Sclat. P.Z. S. 1870, p. 279. Adult female.-External characters. Hair of moderate length, rather coarse. General colour blackish brown, slightly tinged with rufous. Entire face, upper parts of the neck, and shoulders almost black. Limbs from the carpal and tarsal joints downwards bluish grey-brown. Belly rufous brown. Under lip and inside of thighs white. Tarsal gland plainly marked by a spot of yellowish white hair. Ears oval, decidedly small, almost quite naked externally. Muzzle coriaceous, ample, its upper border running directly across from the upper angles of the nares, which it completely surrounds inferiorly. Skull (Plate X.).-General form. Portions of the frontals and parietals forming the roof of the cranial cavity boldly convex, both in a lateral and antero-posterior direction ; facial portion rather short, depressed and much widened laterally as far aa the anterior premolar, from which point forwards the facial portion of the skull is reduced in a marked manner both in width and length. Anteorbital fossa of moderate depth, situated in the anterior portion of the facial plate of the lacrymal. Anteorbital vacuity of moderate dimensions. Malar divided by a longitudinal suture1 into two subequal parts (Plate X. a). Praemaxillae remarkably small, their greatest length very little exceeding that of the upper molar series. Occipital condyles large. Auditory bullae small, their external surface irregular, with a long pointed laterally compressed styloid process. A large depression for the tympa-nohyal, which is not completely enclosed by the definite vaginal process which depends from the floor of the prolonged external auditory meatus. Squamous portion of the squamosal remarkably low. Teeth very large ; the diameter of each of the upper molars in a transverse direction exceeds its longitudinal diameter. Upper and under molars with very small cylindrical supplementary columns. Canines absent. Skeleton.-14 pairs of ribs. inches. metre. Height at the shoulder 24 0*610 Length from point of shoulder to ischium .. 27 0*685 1 It is possible that this suture is an individual and not a specific character. |