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Show 46 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CERVUS CHILENSIS. [Feb. 2, ceedings' would appear, from what is stated (P. Z. S. 1849, p. 64), to have been the stuffed specimen now in the Derby Museum at Liverpool*. "But subsequently (Cat. Ruminants, p. 89) Dr. Gray speaks of the type of Capreolus leucotis as being in the British Museum. The skin thus referred to belongs undoubtedly to Cervus chilensis, and is registered in the British Museum as from ' Valparaiso. Presented by the Earl of Derby.' But in the ' Hand-list' (I. s. ci) it is stated to be from " Patagonia." " In his recent writings Dr. Gray has confused the synonyms of Cervus chilensis with those of Cervus antisiensis of D'Orbigny, as will be seen by the following list of the terms he has lately applied to the latter. " C E R V U S ANTISIENSIS. "Cervus antisiensis, D'Orb. Nouv. Ann. Mus. iii. p. 91 (1834); ej. Voy. Mamm. p. 28, pl. xx. fig. 1. " Cervus antisiensis, Tsch. F. P. Mamm. p. 241, tab. xviii. ; Scl. Ann. N. H. xi. p. 213 (1873). " Anomalocera huamel, Gray, Scient. Opin. 1869, p. 385. "Xenelaphus huamel, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 497. "Xenelaphus leucotis, Gray, Cat. of Rum. p. 89 (1872). "Xenelaphus anomalocera, Gray, Ann. N . H . x. p. 445 (1872), et xi. pp. 220, 309. "Xenelaphus chilensis, Gray, ibid. xii. p. 161 (1873); Gray, Hand-1. of Edent. &c. p. 159 (1873). "Furcifer chilensis, Gray, Ann. N . H. xiii. p. 332 (1874). " Mr. Whitely has sent home from Tinta and the neighbouring Andes of Peru, which he has lately explored, several examples of this species, amongst which was the monstrous-horned male upon which Dr. Gray established his genus Anomalocera sive Xenelaphus. " Mr. Whitely writes to m e that this Deer is called ' Ciervo' (not Oieidos, as miswritten by Dr. Gray, Ann. N . H. 1874), and is found in large troops at a higher elevation than C. peruvianus. "Besides this, Mr. Whitely has likewise obtained in Western Peru heads of two other species of Deer, upon which Dr. Gray has established his Cervus whitelyi and C. peruvianus. " The synonyms of these species stand as follows :- " CERVUS WHITELYI. " Cervus whitelyi, Gray, Ann. N. H . xii. p. 163 (1873). "Coassus whitelyi, Gray, Hand-1. of Edent. &c. p. 162, t. xxxii. fig. 2. " This species is based upon a single skull of a female obtained near Cosnipata in the Peruvian Andes. As Dr. Gray remarks, it appears to belong to the section Coassus, which embraces Cervus rufus and its allies. As no Deer of this form has yet been recog- * Mr. T. J. Moore, the Curator, writes m e as follows:-"We have the type of Cervus leucotis, Gray, P. Z. S. M a m m . pl. xii. Its height at the shoulder is 36 inches." |
