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Show 640 DR. O. FINSCH ON PHOSNICOMANES IORA, ETC. [Dec. 7, these characters the horns procured in Eastern Turkestan are intermediate between those of the Asiatic stags and those of the Wapiti. The horns of the Thian-Shan stag differ from those of C. canadensis in being less smooth, more curved inwards towards the end, and in having the brow and bez antlers much nearer together ; but they are much nearer in form to the Wapiti horns than to those of Cervus cashmirianus and C. affinis. I notice that M . Severtzoff (Turk. Jev. p. 109) divides Cervus maral, with which he apparently identifies the Wapiti, into two varieties, the American and Asiatic, and again subdivides each into two races, those of Asia being called sibirica and songarica. Unfortunately the Russian language, which is employed, renders M. Severtzoff's remarks unintelligible to me, and I cannot say whether the form now described belongs to his Cervus maral, var. asiatica, b. songarica, or not ; but I do not think it can be united to the true Cervus maral, and I therefore suggest the following name: - CERVUS EUSTEPHANUS, sp. nov. Cervus cornibus magnis, sublcevigatis, valde curvatis, superne sub-planulatis subpalmatisque, apices versus convergentibus atque retro productis, ramos ad septem gerentibus, ramis duobus primis subcvqualibus, approximatis, tertio paullo minore, quarto max-imo, basin versus planulato, una cum tribus ultimis gradatim deminuentibus subplano. Hab. in montibus Thian Shan dictis. M y information of the probable locality is derived from Captain Walter, to whom and to Captain Biddulph I am indebted for several notes on the animals of Eastern Turkestan. 3. Notes on Phosnicomanes iora, Sharpe, and Abrornis atricapilla, Blyth. By O. F I N S C H , Ph.D., C.M.Z.S. [Received October 29, 1875.] A comparison of the bird described and figured by Mr. Sharpe (P. Z. S. 1874, p. 427) under the first-mentioned title with the type oi Iora lafresnayei, Hartl. (Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 401) in the Bremen Museum, has convinced m e of their identity. W e have just received from Malacca a second specimen, which shows the base of the feathers on back and shoulders green, exactly as in the figure given by Mr. Sharpe; so that there cannot be the slightest doubt that these two birds are identical. As the habitat " Jamaica" for Phosnicomanes rests only on a dealer's label, and is not verified by any collector's authority; we may believe that there has been a mistake, the certain locality of this species being "Malacca." A still greater mistake was made by the late Mr. Blyth in describing "Abrornis atricapilla" (Ibis, 18/0, p. 169) from China, |