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Kloss: Malayan and other Mouse-Deer. J47
, limbs darkei Belov oreneck is brownish
black, scarcely grizzled, the i .liar is darker, and the whole
middle part of the body is suffused with brownish yellow,
leaving only the pectoral and inguinal areas white: in peninsula]
animals there is at most a broad Y-shaped patch
under-body.
on the
Habitat: -Langkawi Islands. West Coast of the Malay
Peninsula.
Tr m.i ii - '
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>'' res.
Tragulus canescem umbrinus, Kloss (partim), Journ. Straits
Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc, No. 53, 1909. p. 44.
Tragulus canescem terutus, Thomas and Wroughton, Ann.
Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) IV, 1909. p. 536.
Tragulus javanicus terutus, Lydekker, Cat. Ung. Brit. Mus.,
IV, 1 915. p. 272.
Seven examples collected between th< end 1 1 February
and the middle of March: Like T. j. nupu of the adjacent
mainland but rather brighter generally, the sides mi
the colour of the back, not greyish. Nape stripe obs' lete, in
some instances only just traceable: under side of body sometimes
with a broad brownish band as in T. j. umbrinus, but
the chevron of the foreneck paler and much grizzled with
ochraceous as in T.j. napu.
One example i»s abnormal: on the foreneck the mi
white stripe is represented by a few hairs only, the rest of the
neck between the white lateral stripes being blackish-brown
grizzled with ochraceous.
Twelve examples collected in December: much darker
than the above owing to a general increase in pigmentation, the
uppei parts is dark or darker than dark Bornean animals
l), the neck chevron much blacker ind the middle pari
of the under body mon fulvi cenl the latter area
being slightly suffused with black .1-". Two specimens have
the foreneck coloured as in the abnormal example mentioned
above: in one of them the lateral white stripes are merely
represented by two small patches.
Though the two series look notably differenl all the
animals are easily separable from the mainland race by their
yellowish (not grey) sides. The differences in colour inter se
appears to indicate that thei '"1 that
the change from dark to light phase takes pi ice about January.
Probably a triile smaller than the mainland race: the
largest specimen examined has the hindfoot, c. u., 135 mm:
the greatest length of skull in mm: a large Malayan napu
measures 150 and 118 mm. respectively.
Habitat: T. nil. 111 Island, north of Langkawi Island.
Wesl Coast of the Malav Peninsula.