1877.] sir V. BROOKE ON THE DEER OF THE PHILIPPINES. 53 
last year in effecting the transfer of the specimen from Rotterdam to 
the Society’s Menagerie, where it is still living and in perfect health 
(Plate VIII.). An attentive examination of the animal since its arrival 
in London has convinced me that it is safely referable to Cervus 
philippinus, and that the richness of coloration, in which alone it 
differs from the Continental specimens of that species, is owing to 
the deterioration which these latter have suffered during the many 
years of exposure to light to which they have been unavoidably 
submitted. The dark facial markings so strongly shown in the 
living animal are either very faintly visible or absent in the stuffed 
specimens ; but in one of the flat skins, from the voyage of the Bonite, 
in the Paris Museum, these dark markings are very distinct. The 
antlers carried by the animal at the time Mr. Wolf’s drawing was 
made were slightly abnormal, as is so frequently the case with deer 
in confinement. The woodcut published in the Society’s ‘ Proceed- 
ings,’ 1866, p. 367, shows faithfully their normal form. 
List of specimens examined. 
Paris. 
a. & jun., type. Mounted specimen and skeleton. 
6. & adult. (Diguet’s specimen). Ditto. ditto. 
e. Q adult. (Diguet’s specimen). Ditto. 
d,e. 2 adult. et jun. Ditto. 
Leyden. 
tig. & & adult. and jun. Mounted specimens. 
Berlin. 
h. $ adult. Mounted specimens. 
London. 
2. ¢ adult. Living in Society’s Managerie. 
CERVUS MARIANNUS,. 
1820. Cervus mariannus, Desm. Mamm. sp. 669, p. 436. 
1821-24. , Cuv. Oss. Foss. (ed. 2), vol. iv. p. 45. 
1824. Cerfdes Mariannes, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. de l’ Uranie, Zool. 
. 32. 
A 1827. Cervus mariannus, Ham. Sm. Griff. An. Kingd. vol. iv. 
p- 115, and vol. v. p. 311. 
1844, , Sund. Pee. in Kong. Vet. Handl. p. 179. 
Although, as I shall presently show, I have but little doubt that 
Cervus mariannus, Desm., and Cervus philippinus, Ham. Smith, are 
specifically identical, I have considered it expedient for the present 
to leave the question open and to keep the references to their literary 
history separate. 
The attention of future collectors in the Philippine and Marianne 
Islands will thereby be better aroused to the appreciation of one of 
the several desiderata, which can only yield to their zeal and energy. 




Literary History. 
1817-1820. During the voyage of the ‘ Uranie’ round the world, 
specimens were obtained of a small deer, which is stated by Quoy 
