52 SIR V. BROOKE ON THE DEER OF THE PHILIPPINES. [Feb. 6, 
The skull of this species is an exact miniature of that of Cervus 
aristotelis. 
Skeleton. Fourteen pairs of ribs. Cervical vertebrae remarkably 
large. 
Female. In external coloration differs in no way from the male. 
Young. Of a uniform brown without spots. 
Hab. Island of Luzon, Philippines. 
The Philippine Deer is a very stout-built, short-limbed, powerful 
animal, in carriage and general appearance closely resembling the 
common Sambur (Cervus aristotelis). 
Literary History. 
1820. M. Dussumier obtained a young male in Luzon which he 
sent to Paris; the animal died en route. Desmarest gives a short 
notice of the arrival of this specimen in Paris (Mamm. p. 442, note 1), 
where the specimen is still preserved in the Musée d’ Histoire Na- 
turelle (No. 409 in the Catalogue of the Museum). 
1827. Hamilton Smith, in Griffith’s ‘Animal Kingdom’ (vide 
supra), describes this specimen and names it Cervus philippinus. 
He considered the species allied to the Muntjacs. 
1836-37. In the stores of the Musée d’ Histoire Naturelle at Paris 
there are several skins undoubtedly referable to Cervus philippinus. 
These specimens were obtained during the voyage of the ‘ Bonite.’ 
Eydoux and Souleyet, while they describe and figure their indefinite 
species, Cervus pseudawis (Voy. de la Bonité, vol. i. p. 64, pl. 12), 
are entirely silent respecting the Philippine Deer, of which species 
they had collected such ample materials. 
1844. Prof. Sundevall-(vide supra) places the species amongst the 
Rusine Deer. He points out for the first time the absence of hair 
on the posterior surface of the metatarsal phalanges. 
1851. Capt. Diguet presented a male and female of this species 
to the French Academy of Sciences. The specimens had been ob- 
tained at Manilla. 
1855. The female obtained by Capt. Diguet having died in the 
previous year, Pucheran, in the ‘Revue et Magasin de Zoologie’ 
(vide supra), published a very careful and detailed description of the 
specimen, which he correctly refers to Cervus philippinus. 
1857. Capt. Diguet’s male having died in 1856, Pucheran con- 
tinued his observations on the species (wide supra), which he con- 
sidered to differ decidedly from Cervus mariannus. 
1866. Mr.Louis Fraser exhibited and figured (P. Z.S. 1866, p. 367) 
the horns of a Deer killed near the village of Bosa-Bosa, in Luzon. 
These horns, as far as it is possible to judge from a drawing, appear 
in no way to differ from those of Cervus philippinus. I therefore 
think Mr. Fraser was premature in his decision that they were refer- 
able to Cervus mariannus. 
1875. Some years ago I observed a Deer in the Zoological Gardens 
at Berlin which appeared to me irreconcilable with any species with 
which I was acquainted. Upon mentioning my difficulty to Mr. 
Sclater he considered the matter worthy of attention, and succeeded 
