LIVING IN THE SOCIETY'S MENAGERIE. 337 
Society, presented to the Menagerie two ‘‘new Deer from the Persian Mountains.” 
These were entered in the “ List of Mammals exhibited for the first time,” printed in 
the Council’s Report for that year, as the “ Persian Deer, Cervus maral, Ogilby”— 
Mr. Ogilby, no doubt, having intended to describe them under that name, which, how- 
ever, he never appears to have done. These Deer were subsequently transferred to 
the collection of the late Earl of Derby, but, having been in bad condition, never 
recovered ; and the last of them died in 1849’. In the collection of portraits of animals 
living in that collection, drawn by Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, and commonly known 
as the “ Knowsley Menagerie,” are two pictures of this pair of Deer. Pl. xxxvu. 
represents them both in winter dress, and Pl. xxxix. the male in that of summer. 
In the latter stage the spotting is very conspicuous. 
During the Crimean war a male of this Deer was captured in Circassia and “ pre- 
sented to the French Admiral by the chief into whose possession it fell. A female 
having been obtained at some other point on the coast of the Black Sea, the two animals 
were ultimately sent to the Earl of Ducie, who, after keeping them for three seasons at 
Tortworth, most liberally presented them to this Society”? on the 12th of March, 1857. 
On the 23rd of August, 1858, the female produced a hind of the same sex; and nearly 
every year since that period this species of Deer has reproduced in the Society’s Gardens, 
as the subjoined list of the original pair and their descendants will show :— 
List of Persian Deer in the Society's Gardens. 
GUMaleksSeis.cteesseA Presented by the Earl of Ducie ........ March 12, 1857. 
b:, Femaleii...... 2. <.:.:. a Ce ts) eee ,. 3 
Go Hemale eps tecvare ci Born in the Menagerie ................. July 9, 1857. 
ad.) Hemaley. - tana as «2 - 7 Be 3c dee oe August 23, 1858. 
é:, Hemalewzy.%.7 Gh, 2. pS 53) ME ana hates ye July 24, 1860. 
fe Female. Peagee ss ys Cie eal MACiciCR TDs Oct: (Cen ae August 19, 1860. 
gs Bemiale ssh. oe % PEN cc sante June 19, 1862. 
h, ———.......... RE rian. Sb vs rdbeicet heen November 2, 1862. 
Line MEA OS = oe: Bevo “4 Aye dt CRO OR ees September 28, 1863, 
Js Males... cterareates 35 ak ae Se eee ... October 10, 1863. 
ex; Malle, 2. rrrgetn hee a role me Ke cS eRe July 9, 1865. 
Ue Mail Oe a ate res cle. na 5 ij So eo August 1, 1866. 
Us aE Ce eee a ss Ron Pe Netee, asegekeen August 6, 1867. 
Mee WOM alerts saaeree ry, a, ~ 62 COORD ee September 19, 1868. 
The Society have at different times sold off their duplicate stock of this Deer to the 
King of Italy, the Jardin des Plantes of Paris, the Zoological Society of Hamburg, 
Sir Victor Brooke, and elsewhere ; but I am not aware that any other importation of this 
animal has taken place, nor do I believe that any of the Continental Museums contain 
specimens of it, unless from the stock disposed of as above mentioned. 
**Gmnide to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London,’ by D. W. Mitchell. 1858, p. 48. 
- * Mitchell’s Garden Guide, 1. s. c. 
