1877.] SIR V. BROOKE ON THE DEER OF THE PHILIPPINES. 55 
having been sawn through in the manner adopted by taxidermists, 
leave but little doubt in my mind as to the correctness of this 
opinion. Another skull in the Musée d’ Anatomie (No. 1559 in Cat.) 
is, I think, the second skull mentioned by Cuvier. In addition to 
these skulls, there are in the same museum three skulls collected by 
Hombron and Jacquinot in Guam. 
In these five skulls in the Musée d’ Anatomie, and in the immature 
stuffed specimen in the Musée d’ Histoire Naturelle at Paris consists 
as far as I have been able to ascertain, the entire well-authenticated 
material referable to the deer of the Marianne Islands which is con- 
tained at this present moment in European museums. Compared 
with the skull of the male obtained by Diguet in Luzon (the only 
authenticated skull of an adult Cervus philippinus which I have as 
yet discovered), the skulls of the deer of the Marianne Islands 
present in my opinion no characters in common in which they 
differ from the Luzon specimen. Each of the five skulls exhibits 
remarkable individual peculiarity, the difference between the two 
most dissimilar being greater than that existing between some of 
the skulls and that of Diguet’s specimen. Similar individual cranial 
peculiarities are shown in a large series of skulls of Cervus aristotelis 
collected on the Neilgherry Hills, in Southern India, in my own 
collection. 
The great convexity at the junction of the frontals and nasals 
mentioned by Cuvier and Pucheran, and considered as of specific 
value by the latter, is shown in great excess by one of the Marianne 
skulls, less decidedly by another, and scarcely, if at all, by any of the 
remaining three. 
The presence or absence of canines is, as has been shown by 
Pucheran in the case of both the Marianne and the Luzon Deer, 
dependent more or less on the age of the animal, these teeth being 
generally lost shortly after the animal attains full maturity. 
As regards Quoy and Gaimard’s immature specimen, it resembles 
in every important particular a specimen (2 of list, p. 53) of similar 
age bred in the Jardin des Plantes from the specimens collected by 
Diguet in Luzon. 
The evidence therefore lies, I think, clearly in favour of the 
opinion that the deer of the Marianne Islands was originally impor- 
ted from Luzon; but in the present state of our knowledge respect- 
ing this group of deer I think it would be premature to express a 
decided opinion upon the subject. It is fully possible that it was 
from some other part of the Philippines that the Mariannes were 
stocked with deer, aud that the Philippines possess, in addition to 
such comparatively widely distinct species as Cervus philippinus and 
Cervus alfredi, representative species, for which, notwithstanding 
their lesser degree of specific distinction, zoologists may find it neces- 
sary to retain distinctive titles. 
The following Table contains the measurements of a skull and 
horns preserved in the British Museum (655 6 in Cat.). No history 
is attached to this specimen, which has been for many years in the 
collection. It bears a striking resemblance to that described by 
