CEEVrS. 



541 



366. Cervus eldi. The brow-cuUlered Deer or Thameng. 



"Nondescript species of Deer," McClelland, Culc. Jour. N. II. i, 



p. 501, pi. xii, figs. 1 a, 1 b. 

 Cervus eldii, Guthrie {teste Bhjth, P. Z. S, 1867, p. 807), Calc. Jour. 



N. H. ii, p. 417, pi. xii (1842) ; Bearan, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 7-59 ; 



Sicinhoe, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 653, figs. 1-3 ; Sclater, Tr. Z. 8. vii, 



p. 348, pis. xxxvii, xxxviii ; Brooke, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 906 ; W. 



Sclater, Cat. p. 180. 

 Cervus (Rusa) frontalis, McClelland, Calc. Jour. N. II. iii, p. 401, 



pis. xiii, xiv (1843) ; Bli/th, J. A. 8. B. xxviii.p. 296. 

 Panolia acuticornis, Grai/, List Mam. B. M. 1843, p. 180 (no de- 

 scription) ; Cantor, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 272, 

 Panolia platyceros, Gray, ibid. p. 181 (no description) ; Blytli, P. Z. S. 



1867, p. 842, figs. 20-23. 

 Panolia eldii, Gray, Cat. Mam. ^c. Nejjal Sf Thibet B. M. 1846, 



p. 34 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxx, p. 193, xxxi, p. 334 ; id. Cat. p. 149 ; 



id. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 835, Bgs. 13-19 ; id. Mam. Birds Burma, 



p. 45; Bearan, J. A. S. B. xxxvi, pt. 2, p. 175. 



Sanynai, Sangrai, Mauipur ; Thamemj, Burmese. 



Size moderate. Hair very coarse, shaggy iu winter, thick and 

 long about the neck in stag.s. Tail short. Skull elongate, frontal 



Pig. 176. — Skull and horns of Cervus eldi. 



area very narrow ; premaxillaries much shorter than in C. duvau- 

 celi. Horns with an extremely long curved brow-antler joining 

 the beam in such a manner that the two form one continuous 

 curve at right angles to the pedicel. There are frequently small 



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