842 MR. E. BLYTH ON THREE ASIATIC DEER. [NoV. 14, 



They have commonly a prominent vertical snag near the base of the 

 brow-antler, as represented in figs. 15 and 16. This particular race 

 is the Panolia acuticornis of Dr. Gray, being identical with Cervus 

 frontalis, M'Clelland, and C. lyratus, Schinz ; also, as I believe, 

 with C. dimorphe, Hodgson, figured and described in the 'Journal 

 of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' vol. xxii. p. 897, — the horns in 

 that specimen, which is now in the British Museum, being somewhat 

 abnormally developed in a state of captivity. Further to the south, 

 in the province of Mergui and in that of Quedda, the horns of this 

 animal appear to be constantly shorter, and have commonly two or 

 three prominent vertical snags on the brow-antler. In figs. 18 and 

 1 9, a characteristic example of this variety (procured from Quedda 

 by the late Dr. Cantor, and now in the India Museum) is figured 

 in two aspects of view. In the Museum of the Asiatic Society, 

 Calcutta, there are several specimens of similar character from 

 Mergui, and I have never seen an example with more elongated 

 beam from that province. A third and more strongly marked 

 variety is that from Siam, of which the particular horn upon which 

 Dr. Gray founded his P. platyceros is represented in figs. 22 and 23 ; 

 while figs. 20 and 21 represent a head of this variety from the col- 

 lection of the late Sir R. H. Schomburgk. The brow-antlers, as 

 will be observed, have several vertical snags ; and the crown is late- 

 rally much flattened and remarkably serrated, with a series of small 

 tines on its posterior margin. I have seen, probably, more than 

 a hundred pairs of horns of the preceding varieties, but none even 

 approaching in the form of crown to this Siamese race, which Dr. 

 Gray has perhaps rightly discriminated, though further knowledge 

 of the animal is required to decide how far it may be worthy of dis- 

 tinction by a separate name. It is not improbably a well-marked 

 second race of Panolia, as Biicervus schomburgki is undoubtedly a 

 second race of that subtype ; and in the latter instance the geogra- 

 phical area inhabited by the ordinary P. eldi intervenes between the 

 range of distribution of Rucervus duvaucelli and thatof R. schom- 

 burgki. 



DESCEIPTION OF THE FIGUEES. 



Eucervus duvaucelli. 



Figs. 1,2, 5. Ordinary well-developed horns. 

 4. Eoniarkably fine. 

 3. Horns of an aged individual. 



Rucervus schomburgki. 



6. Horns on frontlet, procured by Schomburgk. 

 7, 8. Another pair, procured by Schomburgk. 

 9-12. Series of odd horns, imported for commercial purposes. 



Panolia eldi. 



13-17. Pegu and Munipur variety. 



18, 19. Mergui and Quedda variety. Specimen procured from Quedda by 

 the late Dr. Theodore Cantor. 



20, 21. Siamese race (P. iilatyccros. Gray). Specimen procured by Schom- 

 burgk. 



22, 23. Type specimen described as F. platyceros. 



