798 LETTER FROM MR. R. SWINHOE. [Nov. 5, 



with the typical A. melanochir from Central America. I therefore 

 should think it desirable to have it carefully compared with the A. 

 vellerosus hitherto rather insufficiently known. Deppe procured his 

 Ateles near the place from where Liebmann brought his Monkey ; 

 and from what I myself have heen able to learn by personal experi- 

 ence in other part of tropical America, I am disposed to doubt the 

 occurrence of two nearly allied but still distinct species of these large 

 Monkeys in the very same locality. Should indeed, as I suspect, the 

 Ateles sent home by Deppe really turn out to be an A. vellerosus, then 

 the species would be the only Monkey known to range so far to the 

 north as to the southern provinces of Mexico. 



"Yours very truly, 

 "P. L. Sclater, Esq." " J. Reinhardt." 



In reference to the point last commented upon in Prof. Reinhardt's 

 letter, Mr. Sclater stated that Prof. Peters had, at his request, kindly 

 re-examined the specimen of Ateles in the Berlin Museum obtained 

 by Deppe at Alvarado, and was now of opinion that it belonged to 

 the species figured (P. Z. S. 1872, p. 2, Plate II.) as Ateles vellerosus, 

 although it did not quite agree with Dr. Gray's description of that 

 species in his Catalogue of Monkeys. 



It would appear, therefore, that this species is the only certainly 

 known Ateles which occurs in Mexico. 



An extract was read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by Mr. 

 R. Swinhoe, dated August 2 1 st, in which he gave the following account 

 of Deer belonging to a gentleman in Shanghai, which he believed to 

 be Cervus schomburgki. 



" I visited another gentleman who had a buck Cervus sika, and 

 a buck brought by a ship from Singapore, which bothered me at 

 first. It was in its reddish summer coat, and was spotted on the 

 posterior half of its body. I learned that it had been presented to a 

 European by the King of Siam. Its horns were just budding ; but its 

 master had the pair which were shed last year. 



" The general appearance of the live animal gave one the idea of a 

 Panolia ; and I thought we had here the P.platyceros of J. E. Gray; 

 but a view of the cast horns proved, from the straightness of the frontal 

 snag, that the animal was rather Rucervus or Barasingha, and without 

 doubt the R. schomburgki. 



"A copy of your illustrated paper on Deer (for which I have to 

 thank you much), lately come to hand, enables me to describe the 

 animal more fully. 



" Cervus (Rucervus) schomburgki, Blyth. Male in summer coat. 



" In length of head, style of tail, and general form, like your C. eldi 

 (in summer). Ears longer. Legs much longer and more slender. 

 Upper parts of the same reddish-yellow colour (as in picture), but 

 covered with numerous yellowish-white spots on the posterior half of 

 the body, with a long yellowish-white horizontal line running along 

 the lower part of the side above, and parallel to the border that 



