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The Hainan race of the Sambar apparently requires further ex- 

 amination in order to fully settle its relationships. Swinhoe states 

 that it "approaches the C. rusa of Java in the whiteness of the under 

 parts," in which respect it is quite unlike either the Indian Sambar 

 or the Malayan Sambar. Doubtless a good series of specimens would 

 show it to be readily separable as an insular race from either of the 

 mainland forms. 



3. Panolia eldi platyceros Gray. 



Panolia eldi SWINHOE, P. Z. S., 1869, pp. 653-656, figs. 1-5, antlers. 



"Panolia frontahs (Hodgson) Cervus eldi (Guthrie) " SWINHOE, P. Z. S , 1870, 

 p. 644 (in text). 



Panolia platyceros BLYTH (in Swinhoe), P. Z. S., 1869, p. 656, in text. 



Not represented in the present collection. 



Mr. Swinhoe obtained skins of a female and a fawn, and five pairs 

 of antlers and two odd ones, which are here referred without question 

 to Cervus eldi Guthrie. He cites Mr. Blyth as being of the opinion 

 that "the Hainan Panolia is identical with that of Siam (P. platyceros 

 of Gray), the distinction from the other, or western form, being ap- 

 parent as the horns increase in size." Lydekker (Deer of All Lands, 

 1898, p. 201) places the Hainan form under the subspecies platyceros . 



4. [Cervulus muntjac (Zimmer mann) . 



Cervulus vaginalis SWINHOE, P. Z. S., 1869, p. 652; ibid., 1870, p. 644; ibid., 

 1872, p. 813, in text. 



One specimen, skin and skull of a young female, Taipin, Hainan, 

 June i, 1905. 



The only original authority for the occurrence of the Muntjac in 

 Hainan appears to be Swinhoe 's record, as given above, which has been 

 cited also by various later authors. Swinhoe states that he obtained 

 a number of imperfect skins and two pairs of antlers, both from rather 

 young animals. From a study of this material he was convinced that 

 the Hainan species was referable to C. vaginalis (Boddaert = muntjac 

 Zimm.) "and not to the C. reevesi of China as one would rather 

 have expected it to be." He also states that Mr. Blyth agrees with 

 him in this identification. Later authors, doubtless on this basis, 

 have commonly assigned Hainan to the range of C. muntjac. 



5. Lepus hainanus Swinhoe. 



Lepus hainanus SWINHOE, P. Z. S., 1870, pp. 233, 639, pi. xviii, text-figs. 

 1-4; FORSYTH-MAJOR, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. (2), Zool., VII, pp. 466-468 

 (passim), fig. xix. upper incisors. 



Two specimens: a skin and skull of an old animal, Jan. 10, 1903, 



