, I860.] 



MR. L. FRASER ON CERVUS MARIANNUS. 



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Mr. Louis Fraser exhibited a pair of Horns of a Deer, which had 

 been killed near the village of Bosa-Bosa, near Manilla, in the island 

 of Luzon, one of the Philippine group, and stated that he considered 

 them to belong to the Cervus mariannus of Desmarest, and that they 

 were the first fragments of this species ever exhibited before the 

 Society. The species had not been obtained by the late Hugh 

 Cuming, Esq., during his sojouru in that country. 



Cervus mariannus. 



Quoy and Gaimard, the first discoverers of this animal, had stated 

 that they found upwards of a thousand specimens of this Deer 

 in the Island of Guam, one of the Mariannes Islands, into which 

 place it had been imported from the Philippines, and was doinc 

 well. ° 



Mr. Fraser could not help believing this animal to be very distinct 

 from the Cervus pkilippinus of H. Smith, which is described as 

 having the horns raised upon long peduncles like the Muntjac's, 

 whilst the present species most certainly belongs to the Rusa group. 



The references to the species were stated to be as follows :— 



Cervus mariannus, Desm. Mamm. p. 436, 1820. 



Cerf des lies Mariannes, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de l'Uranie, Zoo- 

 logie, p. 33, 1824. 



Cervus mariannus (Desm.), Cuv. Oss. Foss. iv. p. 45, pi. 5. figs 30 

 37, 38, 46, 1825 ; H. Smith, Griff. Anim. King. iv. p. 1 15, 1827 \ 



