REMARKS UPON TWO SPECIES OF DEER OF THE GENUS 

 CERVUS FROM THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO, BY D. 

 G. ELLIOT, F. R. S. E._ 



In a former paper, issued last May (1896), I described two species 

 of deer from Basilan and Culion, respectively, of the Philippine Archi- 

 pelago, the first as C. steerii; and in the case of the latter I refrained 

 from bestowing a name upon it, as I had not seen the paper on Phil- 

 ippine deer published by Heude in China. 



Cervus steerii was compared with C. philippinus and C. nigricans, 

 Brooke. Last autumn, having had an opportunity to examine the 

 type of C. philippinus in the Natural History Museum in the Jardin 

 des Plantes, Paris, through the courtesy of my friend, Dr. E. Oustalet, 

 I ascertained that my new species was hardly comparable with it 

 in any way save a similarity in the shape of the antlers; C. steerii is not 

 much over half the size of C. philippinus, and differs also in the color 

 of the coat. In fact it would seem to belong to quite another section of 

 the group, than that represented by C. philippinus. Beside the type, 

 there were several other examples of the species in the Museum, but 

 all of them, even the young animals, were much larger than the type 

 of C. steerii. It would seem, therefore, that we must look for its near 

 ally in some other species of Philippine deer, as yet unknown to me. 



In the splendid library of the Zoological Society of London, I was 

 able to find a copy of Heude's paper on the deer of the Philippine 

 islands, and after careful search was unable to ascertain that the 

 species of deer described by me from Culion was mentioned. The 

 paper is really of little assistance in determining the various species, 

 and the author appears* to have seen a new one in almost every 

 example he procured, and unless one has access to the material in his 

 possession it will be practically impossible to recognize the animals 

 upon which he has bestowed so great a list of names. Therefore I 

 propose to christen the animal from Culion, and call it CERVUS 

 CULIONENSIS, in order that, at all events, the Museum specimens can 

 be intelligently referred to. 



