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Show 304 SIR V. BROOKE ON CERVUS SCHOMBURGKI. [Mar. 7, 5. On Cervus schomburgki (Blyth). By Sir V I C T O R B R O O K E , Bart., F.Z.S. [Received February 11, 1876.] No fresh information of any consequence having been added to our knowledge of Cervus schomburgki since Mr. Blyth's original notice of the species (P.Z.S. 1863, p. 155, and 1867, p. 835), I have thought the following details and specific diagnosis, based on specimens which I recently received from Siam, and on an adult stag mounted in the gallery of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, worthy of the Society's notice. For the Siamese specimens, which consist of the frontlet and horns of a remarkably fine old male, and a pair of loose horns of abnormal and very interesting growth, I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Campbell, late resident medical officer of the British Consulate at Bangkok. Respecting the locality from which the specimens were obtained, Dr. Campbell writes, " in reply to your queries, I believe that all the specimens were procured in Northern Siam, probably even in the tributary States named Laos or Shan." The horns of the normal specimen (tig. 1), which are of very vigorous growth, possessing 20 distinct points, present all the characters described by Mr. Blyth as typical of the horns of Fig. 1. Normal antlers of C. schomburgki. |