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Cervus elaphoides, Hodgson, J. A. 8. B. iv. p. 648 (1835), et P. Z. S. 1836, p. 47. 
Rucervus elaphoides vel duvaucelli, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 689. 
Cervus euceros, Gray, Knowsley Menag. pls. 40 & 41. 
Rucervus duvaucelliit, Gray, Knowsley Menag. p. 61; Cat. of Ung. Fure. p. 213; Jerdon, Mamm. of 
India, p. 254. 
Cuvier established his Cervus duvaucelli in the second edition of his ‘ Ossemens 
Fossiles,’ upon three antlers sent to the Paris Museum by Duvaucel from “ the Indies.” 
The exact locality where these were procured is not stated; but the species thus indi- 
cated has hitherto by general consent been considered to be the same as the Bengalese 
animal subsequently named by Hodgson Cervus bahraiya and C. elaphoides'. 
The first individual of this Deer received in the Society's Gardens was a female 
acquired at the sale of the late Lord Derby’s collection at Knowsley in 1851. In 1857 
a young male was presented to the Society by the Babu Rajendra Mullick, of Calcutta. 
The pair bred in 1858; and the female produced a fawn on the 23rd of August of that 
year. ‘The same pair and their descendants bred again in 1860 and subsequent years, 
as will be seen by the following list :— 
List of Barasingha Deer in the Society's Gardens. 
dp Malema crs x bi Purchased at Knowsley sale.............. October 26, 1851. 
b. Female........ Presented-by the Babu Rajendra Mullick .. July 14, 1857. 
c. Female........ Born in the Menagerie 2..3........2-02%- July 17, 1858. 
ae Bematet a0 ae Toe BRM LEN! Sich ENO eee July 24, 1860, 
eMemale ¥. 3. ..20: 5 Fri Td Ane roe inns Mote August 19, 1860. 
ofp Malle: Mgeseranat- case ¥ peti Lan hcyieba sis bac Sicgeagonrt abst August 26, 1861. 
g. Kemale -.. 215... Wepositedaraar ies <teride uate oletcs ses tials. ¢ December 5, 1863. 
ia Male! j05 eens Born in the Menagerie .................. June 30, 1864. 
At the present time, however, J regret to say that our stock of this Deer has been 
reduced by a series of accidents to a single female (ce of list). 
The winter coat of this Deer is of a dullish brown, which, however, changes in 
summer into a brilliant golden yellow, glossed over in the male with purplish black in 
front. The summer dress of both sexes is shown in the plate (Pl. XXXVI.). 
In a state of nature the “ Barasingha,” as this Deer has been usually termed in this 
country, is a water-loving species. It is found in the reedy marshes and islands border- 
ing the large rivers of Bengal, extending eastwards into Assam (where it is said to be 
very abundant in the islands of the Burrampooter), and westwards into the great forest- 
tract of Central India. 
* Cf. Pucheran, Arch. d. Mus. d’H. N, vi. p, 378. But Professor Milne-Edwards has informed me that he 
is doubtful of the correctness of this identification. If these doubts are well founded, the present species 
must bear the name elaphoides. But I do not know any other described species to which the horns as figured 
by Cuvier (/. c. pl. 39. figs. 6, 7 & 8) could be referred. 
