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and this statement I have heard elsewhere in other districts, that the 
“ saman ” are always males, but that they breed with the “lamang,” 
and their young, when males, may carry antlers of either description, 
“lamang” or “ saman.” 
This statement rather points to the deduction that the female 
Cervus schomburghi closely resembles the female Cervus eldi. 
H. B. M. Consul-General in Bangkok, Mr. Lyle, also informs me 
that he remembers seeing antlers of this species many years ago in 
native houses along the Menam Chao Phraya between Paknam Po and 
Utaradit. 
I spent three years in the province of Pitsanulok some sixteen 
years ago but I never came across or heard of this deer, though I shot 
“lamang” in the southern part of the district. 
During the last three or four years I have been several times in 
the districts both east and west of Paknam Po, and it would seem that 
the settlement of this country in the last twenty years has driven all 
game away from the more open country. It was not until I got on to 
the Menam Sak to the east, in the Bua Chum district, that I could 
pick up any news of the recent appearance of Cervus schomburgki. At 
Bua Chum, a village on the east bank of the Menam Sak, in 
latitude 15° 15' N longitude 101° 10' KH, I ascertained that antlers 
were occasionally brought in for sale to the Chinese who trade up and 
down the river. I could, however, get hold of no one who had actually 
shot or seen this animal, but its existence in the district was 
generally recognized. The animal was known to the Laos as ‘“‘la-ong” 
(azana), and ‘saman ” (duu) would appear to be the Siamese 
name for this animal. It was said to be rather lighter in colour and 
somewhat smaller in size than the sambar. 
In 1917 I was in the Korat district and made further enquiries 
there, with much the same result. At Sung Nern I gathered from an 
old inhabitant that he remembered a deer called “la-ong” which had 
formerly been occasionally seen and shot but, since the advent of the 
railway, he had not seen or heard of this animal anywhere in the 
district, although he believed it was found “up north.” This locality 
would correspond to latitude 16° longitude 102°, the Chaiyapum dis- 
trict of Korat. 
In Bangkok “skin and horn” shops, the antlers of Cervus schom- 
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