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Another noticeable point is that antlers which can be procured 
in Bangkok at the present day very seldom carry more than 7 or 8 
points, whereas the antlers recorded twenty years ago or more, frequently 
carried as many as 10 or 12 points. 
In conclusion I would state that the authorities of the British 
Museum of Natural History are most auxious to procure a specimen 
of this deer; at.present they have only skulls and horns. In 1909 
and again in 1914 they approached the British Legation in Bangkok 
to endeavour to obtain for them a complete skin and skeleton, and 
offered £50 to meet expenses in connection therewith. On the out- 
break of war, however, this grant was withdrawn. 
If any member of this Society should at any time be in a posi- 
tion to obtain this animal, either alive or dead, or even a portion of its 
skin or skeleton, he should make every endeavour todoso. For it 
would seem that this deer is on the verge of extinction and it would 
be a thousand pities if it were to be lost to science, before a complete 
record could be made of it. 
In the preparation of this paper I have to acknowledge with 
thanks assistance from Dr. R. Hanitsch, the Director of the Raffles 
Museum, Singapore, in particular; also from Mr. C. Boden Kloss of 
the Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, and the authorities of the 
British Museum, and the Bombay Natural History Society’s Museum. 
LITERATURE. 
1863 Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc., London, p. 155. 
1867 = * 4 cs ‘se p- 835. 
1871 Sclater, Trans. Zool. Soc., London, vol. vii, p. 349. 
1872 Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus., p. 76. 
1873 Gray, Hand-list Ruminants Brit. Mus., p. 140. 
1873 Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 307. 
1876 Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soe., London, p. 304. 
1878 % 4. 2 5 c, p. 905, 
1879 Fitzinger, Sitzber, k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixx1x, pt. i, p. 64. 
1891 Flower and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 320. 
1891 Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 180. 
1896 Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 2, p. 1d. 
1898 Lydekker, Deer of all Lands, p. 193. 
1900 Great and Small Game of India, ete., p. 250. 
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