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VIL. On certain Species of Deer now or lately living in the Society's Menagerie. 
By P. L. Scuater, WA., Ph.D., F_RS., Secretary to the Society. 
Read February 24th, 1870. 
[Puates XXVIII. to XXXIX.] 
THE series of Cervide in the Society’s Menagerie has been considerably augmented of 
late years, particularly as regards the larger species of the Old World, which have been 
conveniently arranged in the new Deer-house recently erected in the eastern corner of 
the South Gardens. Several of these Deer are now or have been lately represented by 
examples of both sexes and of the young born in the Gardens; and amongst them are 
certain species which are very little known to science. Under these circumstances I 
propose to offer to the Society some notes upon these animals to accompany a set of 
illustrations of the rarer species which have been prepared from the living specimens. 
I must, however, premise that my notes relate principally to the history of the intro- 
duction of these animals into the Society’s Gardens, and to the synonymy and distribu- 
tion of the species there exhibited. It is not possible to gather much exact information 
concerning the structure of animals from the examination of living specimens, except 
as regards one or two obvious external characters which may be noticed without close 
handling. 
The species of Deer to which I have thus to call the Society’s attention are nine in 
number, all belonging to the genus Cervus, as I should be disposed to consider it. 
They are :— 
1. Crrvus pavipianus. (Plate XXVIIL.) 
Elaphurus davidianus, A. Milne-Edwards, Compt. Rend. 14 May, 1866; Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 5, v. 
p- 380; Nouv. Arch. d. Mus. ii. Bull. p. 27, pl. iv. (1866); Alcock, P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 210, 530; 
David, ibid. p. 210; Swinhoe, ibid. p. 580; Sclater, ibid. p.531, et P. Z.S. 1869, p. 468. 
_ This fine animal is one of the many zoological discoveries which are due to the 
researches of M. le Pére Armand David, Missionary of the Congregation of Lazarists at 
Pekin; an active correspondent of the Museum of Natural History of the Jardin des 
Plantes, and a Corresponding Member of this Society. M. David first made known the 
existence of this Deer in 1865, in a letter addressed to Professor Milne-Edwards, having 
become acquainted with it by looking over the wall of the Imperial Hunting-park, in 
which it is kept in a semidomestic state. This Park is situated about two miles south 
of Pekin, and is called the Nan-hai-tsze or “Southern Marsh”!. No European is 
1 “The Imperial hunting-ground, or Hae-tsze, as it is called, is three miles outside the south gate of the 
Chinese city; it is a tract of country enclosed by a wall forty miles long. The Emperors Kanghi and Keen- 
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