GEOGRAPHICAL FORMS OF THE PANOLIA DEER. 365 



Hah. — Hainan. 



Type. — Frontlet and horns, said to be of a five-year-old male ; 

 figured by Swinhoe, P.Z.S., 1869, p. 655, fig. 2;'B.M. No. 70. 

 2.10.72. Ost. Cat. 695. q. 



The older horns also figured by Swinhoe on the same page are 

 imfortunatel)^ no longer in the Museum, but the drawing shows the 

 very slight development of the basal snags, in marked contrast to 

 their number and size in old horns of true iilatijceros. And if 

 they are drawn to anything like the same scale as the others, they 

 must have been very miich smaller than old lAalyceTos horns. 



All the references to Formosa in relation to the Museum speci- 

 mens of this Deer should be deleted from Lj^dekker's Ungulates 

 and be replaced by Hainan. The error seems originally to have 

 been made b}' Gray or Gerrard. 



With regard to the distinction of the different forms of these 

 Deer by the antlers, it may be said in a general way that the 

 horns of the Saugnai (R. eldi) are long, thin, and rather smooth, 

 without or with iDut small and few extra basal snags at the junction 

 of the beam and the long brow-tine. In the Thamin (B,. thamin) on 

 the other hand, the horns are comparatively rough, and basal snags 

 are always present, commonly 3-6 inches long, and in one fine pair 

 of horns from Thatoue (Hume Coll.) the extra snags on each side 

 are no less than 11 and 8 inches in length. And in addition 

 more than one snag may be present on a single antler. 



Similarl}' in the more Eastern group the horns of jplatyceros are 

 greatly roughened and may have from 2-5 basal snags on each 

 horn, these occasionally attaining a length of 5 inches. Even a 

 j-oung pair of antlers (Coll. Sir R. Schomburgk) has three distinct 

 "buttons" on each horn, one behind the others. In hainanus on 

 the conti-ary, in five pairs one onlj^ has one small button on each 

 horn, one has one on one side only, and the remainder are entirely' 

 without any trace of them. The much older horns figured bj- 

 Swinhoe have two small knobs on one side and one on the 

 other. 



Of course throughout the series this development of knobs and 

 snags is subject to the greatest variation, and wide departures from 

 the normal must be expected in individual heads, but the above 

 characters, based on the whole Museum Collection, give a general 

 idea of the antlers found in the different forms. 



P. S. — Since the above was written, the National Museum has 

 received as a donation from Mrs. Manby a first and liberal selection 

 of a very fine series of sporting trophies collected in Burma by her 

 late husband Mr. C. W. A. Bruce, the author of several notes on 

 Burmese shooting in Lydekker's "Great and Small Game of India, 

 1900." 



Inchided in this valuable present are some skulls and horns of 

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