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Diagnosis: Coloiu more intense than in T. k.
fidviventer. Upper parts Mars yellow, rather rufou on neck
and forelimbs; hind-limbs tinged with umber brown: back
much hi u ick and slightlj
grizzled; head speckled brown and ochraceous. Chevron on
the foreneck mingled Mais yellow and bla<
a line down the centre oi the breasl cleat
ollai band and
;
Mars yellow; an
ochracei ms-orange Y-shape pati h streti hing from the posterioi
chest to th. abdomen: remaindei oi under-part, back ot
forelimbs, front of thighs and underside oi tail whiti
Measurements —Head and body. 4(15: tail. 70; hindfoot,
c. u., 115 ; ear, 37 mm.
Skull —greatest length, 99; condylobasal length, 91;
upper molar row (alveoli), 36 ; greatest breadth oi skull, 44 mm.
Specimens examined.:—Three adults and a juvenile from
the type locality.
Remarks:—These Penang annual- clo'seh resemble an
example of T. k. rubeus, Miller, of Bintang Island, Rhio
Archipelago, the specimen of which only differs in having a
darker head and an intensely black nape-stripe, but the
la juvenile animal
lattei feature is apparently not typical. I
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(hind-foot, c. ii., to- nun is much more fulvous as the whole
of the under-body and limbs ai with orangeochraceous
except for two small white spots on the chest ;
the hairs, however, have white bases throughout: also on
the throat then 1- a broad oblique fulvous band separating
the white behind the elnu from that ot the toreneck. The
last is a feature of fu G ty, but the Penang annuals
are far too brightly coloured to be referred to that
Tragulus kanchil kavus.
dus ravus, Miller. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XV,
1902, p. [63.
A slightly paler, duller race than /. k. fidviventer fo
southern part oi the Main Peninsula, yellowei and less
ochraceous, rather less blackened above, with the napi tripi
. less intense and distinct. The colouring
though a little paler, 1- dispo ed
oi the undersurface,
< md about
the same proportion have the white of the chest similarly
separated from that of the abdomen [t appears neci
recognise it as distinct from fulviventer th h erie foi eries,
t a strongl) mat keel 1
different, however.
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