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Show 758 MR. A. H. GARROD ON LOPHOTRAGUS MICHIANUS. [Nov. 21, projecting cores, sensible to the touch, beneath the elongated hairs which form a flattened disk on the forehead." Shortly after its arrival the animal began to show symptoms of paralysis, which led to its death on the 14th of July. The following: are measurements made a few hours after its death, before "any ***" t incisions had been made :- inches. From tip of nose to base of tail .. 36 Fleshy tail 3 Length of head 9\ Length of ear 5^ Greatest breadth of ear 3 j From the middle line of the back straight down to the elbow 10 From the elbow to the wrist 5% From the wrist to the base of hoofs 6^ From the middle line of back straight down to the knee 115 From the knee to the ankle 9 From the ankle to the base of the hoof . . 10 A minute examination of the skull and skin of this specimen, in association with the description and figures given of Elaphodus cephalophus, made it quite evident to me that Michie's Deer is of the same genus as it; and I wrote to M . Milne-Edwards to ask him some questions of detail with reference to the Moupin species. In reply that gentleman told me that, besides the specimen figured by him, he has two other skins of the same species in very bad condition, which much resemble Lophotragus in their colour, and that he believes they clearly show that the species is variable in its coloration, and that the Deer described by Mr. Swinhoe is the same as that obtained by Pere David. At the same time he very courteously sent me the two skins above mentioned, from the larger (male) of which the figure of the skull given by him was taken, and also gave me permission to remove the skull from the smaller (young female-) skin. This I have done, and find that in age it is exactly the same as the Society's specimen. A comparison of the skins makes it immediately evident that the animals from Moupin and those from Ningpo scarcely differ from one another at all, and that Lophotragus michianus and Elaphodus cephalophus are the same species, slightly modified in accordance with the difference in their habitats. The following description of the species may serve to render its characteristics more apparent:- Elaphodus cephalophus is a Deer of about the same size as the Indian Muntjac (Cervulus muntjac), with minute simple antlers, which are situated on slender convergent pedestals; and with enormous canine teeth. The supraorbital glands, found in the Muutjacs, are not present; nor is there a tufted gland on the outside of the metatarsus. |
