6 MR. P. R. KEMP ON 
burgki are frequently seen, but whether from recently killed animals 
or not I cannot say. Enquiry generally elicits the information that 
they came from Korat, and this is most probably the case, though some 
certainly come from the Menam Sak district as mentioned above. 
In my opinion Cervus schomburgli is an even rarer animal 
than is generally believed, and its habitat, at any rate as far as Siam is 
concerned, limited to a small area formed by the quadrilateral con- 
tained between latitudes 15° and 17° N, and longitudes 101° and 103° 
E. It is certainly not now found in Siam west of longitude 100° 
30' and I cannot learn of its existence in the province of Ubon, the 
most easterly part of Siam. 
Mr. Lyle, who has travelled very extensively over Siam, and 
who has always been an observant naturalist as well as a keen shikari, 
assures me that it is not found in the north of Siam, say above latitude 
18°, and he also much doubts the existence of the species in the 
Chantabun district. The area, therefore, within which the deer is 
found is practically limited to the above mentioned quadrilateral which, 
unfortunately, is a district never visited by Europeans. 
The country contained in this area is open, very sparsely settled, 
and in the rains swampy. ‘The approximate elevation above mean sea 
level would be about 1,000 feet. 
Whether this deer is found in any of the countries bordering on 
Siam is a point upon which I can find very little reliable information. 
All the specimens (antlers) in the British Museum, ana in the 
Bombay Natural History Society’s Museum, as well as all recorded in 
Rowland Ward's “ Records of Big Game,” have come from Siam, and 
1 cannot find any mention of specimens having been procured 
elsewhere, with the single exception of a pair of antlers figured in 
Bentham, Asiatic Horns and Antlers, Ind. Mus, 1908, p. 88, as 
collected by John Anderson in 1878 in the Sunda Valley, Western 
Yunnan.* 
Rowland Ward states that the deer is found in Cambodia, but 
I do not know his authority for this statement unless it was Gray, who 
in his Catalogue of Ruminants, Brit. Museum, 1872, describing a 
frontlet and antlers from Cambodia ( Cervus cambojensis ), identified it - 
* The town of Sunda is about 50 miles E. N. EF. of Bhamo, on a river 
running into the Lrrawadi at that town. 
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