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Show 372 MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [Apr. 3, 900 feet elevation, in the Dong Phya Fai: the right antler from burr to tip measured along the curve 6*5 inches, the left 6-75 inches (171 mm.). A deer we saw and heard on the Bangpakong River in March 1897 was probably of this species, though I failed to procure a specimen. Distribution. India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Cambodia, Hainan, Malay Peninsula (Perak, Selangor, Malacca, Pahang), Sumatra, Java, Lombok, Borneo. 147. CERVUS SCHOMBURGKI Blyth. Schomburgk's Deer. " Qua-an " of the Siamese. Distribution. Parts of Siam. 148. CERVUS ELDI Guthrie. The Thameng. Panolia acuticornis, Cantor, p. 64. Cervus eldi, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 541, fig. 176. " Sam-an " of the Siamese. Cantor says " A single skull of a stag, killed in Keddah, has the horns so like those of the Munneepore animal, that the species might be taken to be identical, but that the Malays assert theirs to be maned, and of a dark colour, with white spots, like the Axis. This stag is further described as being extremely wary, and therefore seldom seen but on heights inaccessible to man." H.H. the Rajah Mudah of Kedah, who is keen on shooting, told me the Thameng does not exist in Kedah ; antlers are sometimes conveyed there from Siam, a pair of which probably were brought to Cantor, with imaginary details to enhance their value, the statement that they frequent "heights inacessible to man" being alone suspicions in regard to this plain-dwelling species. W . L. Sclater (Cat. Mamm. Indian Mus. ii. 1891, p. 181) records a frontlet of this species supposed to have been " brought from Penang " in 1846; this may have been imported from Siam, via Singora and Kedah. Mr. H. Warington Smyth (' Five Tears in Siam,' vol. ii. p. 217) says the plain round Battambong " is much frequented by herds of the Lamang, or Eld's Deer," and describes how the Cambodians capture them. Distribution. Manipur, Burma, Siam, Cambodia, Hainan. 149. CERVUS UNICOLOR Bechstein. The Sambar. Rusa equina, Cantor, p. 63. Cervus unicolor, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 543 fig 177 (p. 544). " Nua " of the Siamese. " Rusa " of the Malays. Cantor records the Rusa from the Malay Peninsula and Penang • so far as I have been able to ascertain, it is now extinct in Penang' and has been so for the last 25 or 30 years. H. J. Kelsall |
