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Show 1897.] DEER ALLIED TO CERVUS SICA. 41 So far as the forms to which the names quoted above refer are concerned, this prophetic opinion is in accord with the conclusions at which I have arrived from m y examination of the Woburn herd. It is true that I have not found it possible to measure a series of specimens graduating from the 2 ft. 8 in. of the typical sica to the 3 ft. 5 in. of C. manchurlcus and C. dybowskii, but intermediate forms undoubtedly exist; and I find little distinction except size between the largest and the smallest. In his description of C. manchurlcus Mr. Sclater gives the height at 3 ft. 8 in.; but I think this must be a misprint for 3 ft. 3 or 5 in., which is the height of the " co-type " of C. dybowskii. Apparently, the typical C. manchurlcus is unrepresented at Woburn, unless an immature buck with faint spots in the winter coat, and a similarly marked doe, belong to it. The type of C. manchurlcus is figured by Mr. Sclater in pis. xxxi., xxxii. of vol. vii. of the Society's ' Transactions.' The summer coat is well spotted, whereas the winter dress is a rich uniform dark brown on the tipper-parts, with light chestnut patches on the shoulders ; the under-parts being dark. The tail apparently has but little trace of a black line; and in a specimen of the typical sica in winter dress in the British Museum it is almost completely white. In summer the dark median line seems to be more marked, and there may be some black at the tip. As regards C. kopschl, from China, of which the type is in the British Museum, I agree with Sir V. Brooke that it is inseparable from manchurlcus. I now come to C. dybowskii, originally described on the evidence of specimens obtained from the Upper Ussuri district of Manchuria, one of which was presented by the founder of the name, Prof. Taczanowski, to the British Museum, where it has for many years been exhibited in the Mammal Gallery under the name of manchurlcus. Indeed, it was only the other day that I became acquainted with the fact that it was one of the " co-types " of dybowskii. In writing of this Deer, Sir V. Brooke observed, "itis highly probable that, when we know more of this, it will be found inseparable from C. manchurlcus." It is much to be regretted that Sir Victor did not more carefully study the original description. Had he done so, he would have found that dybowskii is absolutely the same as manchurlcus, and much subsequent misunderstanding would have thereby been saved. When Prof. Taczanowski's original description is carefully studied, it will be found that there is no mention at all of C. manchurlcus, with which the author appears to have been unacquainted. Such comparisons as are made are with C. axis and C. dama; consequently no points of difference between this deer and C. manchurlcus are indicated, and it is pretty evident that the two are identical. It is true that Taczanowski states that the type of his species is of the colour of a Roebuck in the winter coat, with faint tracings of dapplings on the hind-quarters; but he alludes to a lighter race from the same district, and his specimen in the Museum is brown (doubtless |