540 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CERTAIN SPECIES OF DEER 
Falconer, who, during his expedition to Cashmeer and Little Thibet, obtained several 
specimens of the present species. Dr. Falconer made careful notes of this animal, 
designating it in his MS. Cervus cashmeerianus, but unfortunately never published these 
notes ; and it is only since his lamented decease that these and many other of his valuable 
contributions to science have been made known. Mr. G. T. Vigne, the well-known 
traveller, who was in Cashmeer at the same time as Dr. Falconer, seems to have fur- 
nished him with some sketches of this Deer, which are likewise published in the 
‘ Paleontological Memoirs’’. 
In 1840 Mr. Vigne seems to have shown a horn of the Cashmirian Deer to Mr. Blyth, 
who gave a short account of it on July 28th of that year before this Society. Mr. Blyth 
suspects that it ‘ would prove to be the C. wallichii of Duvaucel, or a closely allied species, 
a description of which may be expected from Dr. Falconer.” 
In 1841 Mr. Blyth, in his article on the “ True Stags or Elaphine form of Cervus,” 
published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (x. p. 736), again speaks of 
the “ Kashmir Stag” (p. 747), and considers it ‘“ very likely” to be identical with the 
“ Jerrael, Cervus wallichii, Duvaucel, Cervus affinis, Hodgson,” but understands that 
‘“‘ Dr. Falconer considers them distinct,” and “leaves the Kashmir species to be described 
by the latter eminent naturalist.” At the same time he takes the opportunity of giving 
two drawings? of the antler in Mr. Vigne’s collection, which he had previously described 
in this Society's ‘ Proceedings.’ 
In 1846 Dr. Falconer presented to the British Museum skulls of the male and female 
of his “ Cervus cashmeerianus.” In the “list of osteological specimens ” of that institu- 
tion, published in 1847, this name was misprinted ‘‘ cashmerensis.” Dr. Falconer, as he 
once told me himself, endeavoured to have this mistake corrected, but was only successful 
in getting the miswritten term altered into the much worse form of casperianus ! (List 
of Ost. Spec. errata, p. 147). Both these MS. names are quoted in the subsequently 
published catalogue of “ Ungulata Furcipeda,” and other catalogues of Dr. Gray, where 
the Cashmir Deer is united to the Persian Deer, and called Cervus wallichii. 
In Cunningham’s ‘ Ladak ’ (1854), a notice is given (p. 201) of the ‘Shu, or Tibetan 
Stag” found in Cashmeer, and a figure of its horns (pl. 7). This is doubtless intended 
for C. cashmeerianus. 
In Jerdon’s ‘Indian Mammals’ a short account is given of the Cashmeerian Deer 
under the name Cervus wallichii, which term, however, Dr. Jerdon subsequently allows, 
as I have stated above, to be more probably referable to the Cervus affinis. Dr. Jerdon 
also erroneously united the Persian Deer (Cervus maral) with this species. 
In his article on the habits and haunts of various Indian Mammalia, published in the 
Society’s * Proceedings’ for 1858, Dr. A. Leith Adams has given a good account of the 
habits of this species under the name Cervus cashmeriensis. According to Dr. Adams, 
* See Paleontological Memoirs and Notes of the late Hugh Falconer. Edited by Charles Murchison, vol. i. 
p- 578 (1868). ? See the accompanying plate, J. A.S. B. vol. x. figs. 8 & 9. 
