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CHEVROTAIN , a name taken from the See also:

French to designate the various representatives of the mammalian ungulate See also:

FAMILY

family Tragulida'e. These tiny animals, commonly known as See also:

MOUSE

mouse-See also:

deer, are in no See also:

wise nearly related to the true deer, but constitute by themselves a See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

section of artiodactyle ungulates known as Tragulina, for the characteristics of which see AJTIODACTYLA. The typical genus Tragulus, which is See also:

ASIATIC

Asiatic, contains the smallest representatives ' of the family, the animals having more of the See also:

general aspects and habits of some rodents, such as the agoutis, than of other ruminants. The longest-known See also:

SPECIES

species are T. javanicus, T. napu, T. kanchil, T. stanleyanus and T. memmina; but a number of other forms, best regarded for the most See also:

PART

part as races, have been named. Of those mentioned, the first four are from the See also:

MALAY

Malay See also:

Peninsula or the islands of the Indo-Malay See also:

ARCHIPELAGO

Archipelago, the last from See also:

CEYLON

Ceylon and See also:

India. Kanchil and napu See also:

AFRICAN

African See also:

WATER

Water Chevrotain (Dorcatherium aquaticum). (or napoh) are the Malay names of the species with those specific titles. ' The second genus, Dorcatherium (or Hyomoschus), is African, and distinguished chiefly by the feet being stouter and shorter, the See also:

OUTER

outer toes better See also:

DEVELOPED

developed, and the two See also:

MIDDLE

middle metacarpals not welded together: Its dental See also:

formula (as that of Tragulus) is i. , c. I, m.3 =34. Vertebrae: C. 7, D.

13, L. 6, S. 5, Ca. 12-13. The only existing species, D. aquaticum (fig.), in type is rather larger than any of the Asiatic chevrotains, which it otherwise much resembles, but is said to frequent the See also:

banks of streams, and have much the habits of pigs. It is of a See also:

rich See also:

brown See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, with back and sides spotted and striped with See also:

white; and it is evidently the survivor of an See also:

ancient See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form, as remains of a species only differing in See also:

SIZE

size (D. crassum) have been found in the See also:

MIOCENE

Miocene deposits of See also:

France. For See also:

long this species was sup-posed to be restricted to See also:

West See also:

Africa, but it has recently been obtained in See also:

East Central Africa, where it is represented by a See also:

LOCAL

local See also:

RACE

race. (R.

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