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Show I860.] MR. L. FRASER ON CERVUS MARIANNUS. 367 Mr. Louis Fraser exhibited a pair of Horns of a Deer, which had been killed near the village of Bosa-Bosa, near Manilla, in the island of Luzon, one of the Philippine group, and stated that he considered them to belong to the Cervus mariannus of Desmarest, and that they were the first fragments of this species ever exhibited before the Society. The species had not been obtained by the late Hugh Cuming, Esq., during his sojourn in that country. Cervus mariannus. Quoy and Gaimard, the first discoverers of this animal, had stated that they found upwards of a thousand specimens of this Deer in the Island of Guam, one of the Mariannes Islands, into which place it had been imported from the Philippines, and was doing well. Mr. Fraser could not help believing this animal to be very distinct from the Cervus philippinus of H. Smith, which is described as having the horns raised upon long peduncles like the Muntjac's, whilst the present species most certainly belongs to the Rusa group. The references to the species were stated to be as follows:- Cervus mariannus, Desm. Mamm. p. 436, 1820. Cerf des lies Mariannes, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de l'Uranie, Zoo-logie, D. 33, 1824. Cervus mariannus (Desm.), Cuv. Oss. Foss. iv. p. 45, pi. 5. figs. 30, 37, 38, 46, 1825 ; H. Smith, Griff. Anim. King. iv. p. 115, 1827 |