PROCEEDINGS 
‘ 
OF THE 
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
January 10, 1865. 
Dr, J. E. Gray, F.R.S., in the Chair. 
The Secretary called the attention of the Meeting to the fine speci- 
men of the Mantchurian Deer from Newchwang, now in the Society’s 
Gardens, which had been received from Mr. Swinhoe on the 4th of 
July, 1864, and which was the specimen upon which Mr. Swinhoe 
had proposed to found his species, Cervus mantchuricus, P. Z. S., 
1864, p. 169. 
With reference to this animal, the Secretary read the following 
extract from a ‘letter addressed by Mr. Swinhoe to Dr. Gray, dated 
Amoy, 6th October, 1864 :— 
“‘ Amoy, 6th October, 1864. 
‘I find here a magnificent buck Deer in the possession of Mr. 
Pasedag, the gentleman from whom I procured the Newchwang Deer 
for the Gardens on my arrival in China. This noble animal, which 
stands 4 feet high from the shoulder, is also from Newchwang, 
and being in fine spotted red summer coat, and of a commanding 
stature, I took it at first for a distinct species. But on closer exami- 
nation, I feel pretty convinced it is of the same breed as the animal 
for which I proposed the name Cervus mantchuricus; and that on 
second thought I suspect will turn out to be the same as the three 
skins I forwarded to the Museum from the summer residence of the 
Chinese Emperor, the oldest buck of which you had figured in the 
* Proceedings’ as C. pseudazis, and for which Blyth has proposed the 
name C. mantchuricus, and I, subsequently, C. hortulorum. 
“ Cervus mantchuricus. Approaching the Avis type, closely allied 
to Cervus taivanus and C. sika, more so, apparently, to the former. 
“Fine buck from Newchwang, still in summer coat ; examined 30th 
Proc. Zoor. Soc:—1865, No. I, 
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