CERVUS SCHOMBURGKI. 3 
During the next twenty years I can find no record of this deer, 
but in 1897 a live male specimen was procured in Siam, having been 
eaught by Phya Rachavarinth, the Governor of Saraburi, “ somewhere 
on the Korat plains.” 
This deer was given to Mr. Passmore, who was at the time 
stationed at Saraburi in charge of the railway construction, and was 
sent down by him to the late Mr. Bethge, the Director General of the 
railway. The latter went home to Germany in 1898 and took the deer, 
with other living specimens of the fauna of the country, for presenta- 
tion to the Berlin Zoological Gardens.* 
Neither Mr. Passmore nor Mr. Bethge realized the value of the 
find, and were considerably surprised when they later heard that 
the animal was a very rare one, and-—erroneously, it would appear 
the first ever caught anl brought to Europe. It is said that Mr. 
Bethge was seriously annoyed at having to pay ticals 21 for railway 
charges for the animal’s transport to Bangkok. 
The rarity of the find was such that Messrs. Jamrach sent ont, 
in about the year 1905, a special collector to endeavour to capture 
another living specimen. This collector, Mr. Chance, spent several 
months in the Korat district attempting to net this deer, but was not 
successful in obtaining a specimen either dead or alive, although he 
was more fortunate with Cervus eldi which is comparatively common. 
Mr. Chance had in his possession photographs of the deer, which 
IT imagine, must have been taken of the animal sent to Germany. 
Cervus schomburgki undoubtedly belongs to the same group 
as Cervus duvauceli, the‘ barasingha”™ or swamp deer of India, and 
> of Siam, or “ thamin ” of Burma. 
Cervus eldi, the “ lamang’ 
The following full description of the species, taken from Lydek- 
ker’s Catalogue of Ungulates, 1915, must, I think, have been taken 
from a study of one of the living animals in captivity in Europe, or 
from the mounted specimen in Paris. 
Typical locality :—Siam. 
“Height at shoulder about 3'5"5 coat in winter rather 
long and coarse; general colour uniform brown, darkest on 
nose and the upper surface of tail, and lightest on cheeks and 
flanks ; under parts, under surface of tail and lower lip whitish ; 
* Mention of this animal is made in P. Z. 8. 1900, p, 303. 
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