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256 Journal of the F. M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII.
The only specimen available (from Paku Saribas, Sarawak),
is both paler and darker than any Malayan race; the upper
parts having the fulvous element much more bufiy and the
blackish clouding much heavier and extending over the head,
neck, hind-limbs and tail: only the proximal parts of the forelegs
are clear ochraceous orange and the hind-legs arc only
very slightly tinged with Sudan brown. Cheeks pale huffy, top
of head blackish-brown, nape stripe broad and black : neckchevron
like the sides of neck but more blackened, collar like,
the sides of neck but less blackened ; a median ochraceous
patch on the abdomen joined to the collar by a narrow line:
remaining underparts white.
This example is not typical as it differs from those described
by Bonhote (Baram River, N. Sarawak), and Miller (Mt.
1 )ulit, ;,ooo feet, N. Sarawak), in having the neck grizzled with
black, not clear coloured.
(The only other known continental form of the genus
Tragulus (s.s.) is Tragulus versicolor of South Annam (Thomas,
Ann. & Mag. V, 1910, p. 5.-55). It is regarded by Lydekker as
a subspecies of javanicus (Cat. Ung. Brit, Mus., IV, 1915, p.
286) but is an animal of very distinct characters—larger than
kanchil, smaller than javanicus; anterior half of body fulvous,
posterior grey; these colours meeting abruptly behind the
shoulders. In the present state of our knowledge it is of very
isolated occurrence for no napu has yet been recorded from the
region between Tenasserim and Annam.