640 DR. 0. FINSCH ON PHG:NICOMANES I0RA, ETc. [Dee. 7, 
these characters the horns procured in Eastern Turkestan are inter- 
mediate between those of the Asiatic stags and those of the Wapiti. 
The horns of the Thian-Shan stag differ from those of C. canadensis 
in being less smooth, more curved inwards towards the end, and in 
having the brow and bez antlers much nearer together ; but they are 
much nearer in form to the Wapiti horns than to those of Cervus 
cashmirianus and C. affinis. 
I notice that M. Severtzoff (Turk. Jev. p. 109) divides Cervus 
maral, with which he apparently identifies the Wapiti, into two 
varieties, the American and Asiatic, and again subdivides each into 
two races, those of Asia being called sibirica and songarica. Un- 
fortunately the Russian language, which is employed, renders M. 
Severtzoff’s remarks unintelligible to me, and I cannot say whether 
the form now described belongs to his Cervus maral, var. asia- 
tica, b. songarica, or not; but I do not think it can be united 
to the true Cervus maral, and I therefore suggest the following 
name : — 
CrRvus EUSTEPHANUS, Sp. lov. 
Cervus cornibus magnis, sublevigatis, valde curvatis, superne sub- 
planulatis subpalmatisque, apices versus convergentibus aique 
retro productis, ramos ad septem gerentibus, ramis duobus primis 
subequalibus, approximatis, tertio paullo minore, quarto max- 
imo, basin versus planulato, una cum tribus ultimis gradatim 
deminuentibus subplano. 
Hab. in montibus Thian Shan dictis. 
My information of the probable locality is derived from Captain 
Walter, to whom and to Captain Biddulph I am indebted for several 
notes on the animals of Eastern Turkestan. 
3. Notes on Phanicomanes iora, Sharpe, and Abrornis atri- 
capilla, Blyth. By O. Finscu, Ph.D., C.M.Z.S. 
[Received October 29, 1875.] 
A comparison of the bird described and figured by Mr. Sharpe 
(P. Z.S. 1874, p. 427) under the first-mentioned title with the type 
of Tora lafresnayei, Hartl. (Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 401) in the Bremen 
Museum, has convinced me of their identity. We have just received 
from Malacca a second specimen, which shows the base of the feathers 
on back and shoulders green, exactly as in the figure given by Mr. 
Sharpe; so that there cannot be the slightest doubt that these two 
birds are identical. 
As the habitat “Jamaica” for Phenicomanes rests only on a 
dealer’s label, and is not verified by any collector's authority ; we 
may believe that there has been a mistake, the certain locality of this 
species being ‘‘ Malacca.” 
A still greater mistake was made by the late Mr. Blyth in de- © 
scribing ‘‘ Abrornis atricapilla”’ (Ibis, 1870, p. 169) from China, 
