May. 1896. Sundry Collections of Mammals — Elliot. 75 



by Sir Victor Brooke as having " the outer tine always surpassing the 

 inner tine in length. " The specimen serving as the type, and which is 

 the only one I have seen, is a fully adult male, and the horns for 

 their size are heavy and rough. In shape they are very different 

 from those of C. philippinus (P '. Z. S. , 1S66, p. 367, called C. marian- 

 nus, and 1877, pi. VIII), the brow antler of C. sieerii being quite short, 

 straight, diverging rapidly to a point, and joining the beam at a sharp 

 angle. The inner tine is of the same shape and of about the same 

 size as the brow antler, and bends backwards and very slightly 

 inwards. The burr is rather small, and but slightly larger than the 

 beam in circumference. The latter is thick and straight, with little 

 or no taper, the outer tine, which curves slightly inward, being simply 

 the natural prolongation of the beam to a point. It is widest at the 

 fork of the inner and outer tines. 



From C. nigricans, Brooke, the present animal differs in the color 

 of the coat, which is much brighter than that of Sir Victor Brooke's 

 species, (P. Z. S., 1877, p. 57,) and also from the form of the skull of 

 C. nigricans, a figure of which taken from a female is given in 

 P. Z. S., 1877, pi- X. Some allowance must be made for the differ- 

 ence in sex, but the general form of the two skulls is quite different, 

 the facial portion of C. sieerii being quite flat and depressed in the 

 middle of the frontals between the orbits, while the maxillae are 

 sharply reduced in width from the anterior border of the second pre- 

 molar to the premaxillary suture, forming a narrow, rather sharp 

 nose. The nasals at their upper posterior border are quite broad, but 

 narrow very sharply at about one-third their length from the junc- 

 tion with the frontals. The shape of the antorbital vacuity is very 

 different, being quite sharply pointed at its lower end and the antor- 

 bital fossa is larger and deeper. There is quite a difference in the 

 dimensions between the skulls of the two animals, more than the fact 

 of sex would seem to warrant, even in the same species. There is no 

 longitudinal suture dividing the malar, but this unusual peculiarity in 

 the skull of the type of C. nigricans is probably, as suggested by its 

 describer, an individual and not a specific character. 



I am unable to find any description of a deer answering to the spec- 

 imen collected by Professor Steere, and the locality is one from 

 which zoological examples have not often been obtained. As I have 

 already stated in a former portion of this paper, I have not seen P. 

 Heude's descriptions of Philippine deer, but as a copy is not obtain- 

 able of his memoir, I can only trust that the present species has 

 escaped the shower of names he appears to have bestowed upon the 

 Cervida- of the Philippine Archipelago. Professor Steere writes 

 me as follows about this species: "The Basilan Cervus was found 



