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Show 1873.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON CHINESE DEER. 575 tawny ; hocks chestnut tawny, as also the outer side of tarsus below the glandular patch. Hoofs black, light brown colour at tips. Belly and inside of fore legs brownish white, a deep-brown line running down centre of breast. Between thighs and under tail pure white. Head, neck, back, and outer edges of ears brown, whitish near edge of under lip and on throat; a deep-brown spot on chin ; inside of ears pure white, their backs whitish at outer base. Measurements. ft. in. Thigh-joint to tip of toe 2 9 Shoulder-joint to tip of toe 2 6| Elbow-joint to knee-joint 0 10 Knee-joint to carpal joint 0 7\ Carpal joint to hoof 0 3| Hoof of fore foot 0 1*7 Hip to hock-joint 1 3| Hock-joint to tarsal joint 0 11 Tarsal joint to hoof 0 3| Hoof of hind foot 0 If Tail to tips of hair 0 8| Head, length of 0 10| „ depth of, at gape 0 3^ „ depth of, before eye 0 4f ,, depth of, at horns 0 5f Ear, length of 0 7 „ breadth of 0 2f Eye to tip of nose 0 5\ Between ears 0 3f Between horns 0 2*4 Length of eye 0 1 \ Between eyes (fore canthus) 0 2| Between eyes (hind canthus) 0 3f Length of lachrymal slit 0 0^ Neck 0 11 Upper lip 0 3\ Under lip 0 2\ Breadth of nose 0 1| Depth of nose 0 1 Split of toes of fore foot 0 3f Split of toes of hind foot 0 3f The skull of this creature is now before me. It seems to me to resemble the skull of Hydropotes more than that of any other species I am acquainted with. It has the same Rusine characters of the base of the cranium pointed out by Sir Victor Brooke, and has also a similar small lachrymal sinus or crungmoafiesn nato lhu,esc o asnsnutppadaric aneloe,ard cbh hiortwwayielmtv haeiflnro , rb aotamnhteee nst lheiaexsc t hmverenyerdmytsai lnlb gaer bygoooenf;ed t ahintetdhs ef eltrf ho.peno t sabtlTao,rch bkmieawtxa airllcd lal raeitrninyel,.da |