2 MR. P. R. KEMP ON 
The oceurrence, however, of these additional horns presented by 
the Siamese Embassy, which were certainly brought from Siam, in- 
duced him to believe that they indicated a distinct species, separated 
widely in its geographical range from the Rucerrus duvauceli, which 
was quite unknown in Siam, 
In 1865 two fine pairs of horns of Cervus schomburgki were 
purchased for the British Museum from a miscellaneous collection 
of objects of Natural History procured in Siam, and brought home by 
Sir R. Schomburgk and auctioned after his decease. 
Blyth exhibited photographs of these and other horns in the 
P.Z.S. 1867, page 835, and at the same time he makes mention of 
‘having been assured that a living buck of the species is at this time 
living in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris.” 
He also mentions in this paper the fact that two of the heads 
exhibited had the brow tine forked. 
Sir Victor Brooke, F. Z. 8., writing nine years later (P. Z. S., 
18,6, p. 304), mentions having received further specimens of the horns 
of Cervus schomurghi, and states that “all specimens were procured in 
northern Siam, probably even in the tributary states named Laos and 
Shan,” basing his statement upon the opinion of De. Campbell, the 
resident Medical Officer of the British Consulate at Bangkok, with 
whom he had corresponded on the subject. 
Brooke also refers to “an adult stag mounted in the gallery of 
the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris” which had been sent 
from Siam by M. Bocourt, and which is “that mentioned by Mr. Blyth 
(P.Z.S. 1867, p. 835). 
In the P. Z. 8. 1872, p. 758, further mention is made of a living 
specimen of the R. schomlurgki in Shanghai. This animal, it was 
stated, was presented toa European by the King of Siam. 
In 1873 the Zoological Gardens in London procured by ex- 
change from the Zoological Gardens of Hamburg, a buck deer which 
was identified as Cervus duvauceli. In 1877, however, it was suggested 
that this deer was really a specimen of Cervus schomburgki and its 
origin was then traced back. It was found to have been bred in 
captivity in the Hamburg Zoological Gardens between a male, said to 
have come from Bangkok in 1862, and a female received from Berlin, 
which was also believed to have come from Siam. (P. Z. 8., 1877, 
p. 682). 
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