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250 Journal oj the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. \ II.
Only one specimen is available: it differs from the
Battam race principally in having the top oi the face and
head blackish and a somewhat blackened nape tripe; the
clear colour of the neck does not extend on to the withers,
consider-
which are darkened, the chevron of the foreneck i
ably more blackened, the collar is broader and th< b
darker, more blackened fulvous. The form is somewhat
variable and some individual- closely approach Battam
animals.
Habitat. Bintang Island, Rhin Archip
Tragulus javanicus Rl I
Tragulus rufulus, .Miller, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., II,
1900, p. 227; Thomas, Journ. F.M.S. Mus. II, 1908. p. 106.
Tragulus {javanicus) rufulus. Kloss, Journ. Straits Branch
Roy. Asiat. Soc. No. 53, 1909, p. 4}.
This is the most brilliantly coloured of all mouse-deer,
exceeding both stanleynnus and formosus in richness of tone.
Neck deep ochraceous-orange, upper parts of body orangerufous,
rump and tail brilliant rurous brown: the black
clouding which obsi m - the colour of the body is variable; in
one or two examples of a large series it is practically absent;
'
it is always slight on the limbs. The top of the head is like
the back and generally there is a faintly indicated nape
stripe of orange-rufous. Thi fori at marl ings are like the
1 sides of the neck but the chevron slightly
sprinkled with black. The undersidi oi the body is primarily
white but in various ways there is an encroachment of fulvous :
in only one exampli does the lattei colour completely cover
the belly between breast and inguinal regions, though the
white between these areas is not infrequently reduced to two
broad elongate patch.- separated by a fulvous median area
which is generally Marl.nail.
This character, as well as the nape stupe and brighter
colour, separates rufulus from the Battam and Bintang
animals: otherwise it would have some claims for consideration
as stanleyanus : but it is highly improbable that material
from such a little known and remote island as Tinman ever
came to the notice of Europeans in the middle of last century.
Habitat. Tioman Isl.inT Ea Malay
Peninsula.
Specimen* examined. Twenty.
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Moschus fulviventer, ( oa\ . P.Z.S
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1 This " drifting " name has been the ideal
of uncertainty and inconvenienci ict provenance
of the types is unknown; u was suggested that tiny came