LIVING IN THE SOCIETY'S MENAGERIE. 351 
have never had adult specimens of the latter’. But the Formosan form of Rusa is 
certainly, in my opinion, quite distinct from the true Sambur of continental India 
(C. aristotelis) which Mr. Blyth now seeks to unite with C. eguinus*. The true Sambur 
is a larger and more lightly and uniformly coloured animal, and attains much larger 
and better developed horns than C. swinhoit, which is further remarkable for the rufous 
colour of its hinder quarters and its black and very thick and bushy tail. 
I exhibit some drawings of the head of a young male Sambur (C. avistote/is) now in our 
Gardens (figs. 7 & 8) (where he was born May 31,1866), one of which shows the deve- 
lopment of horns attained by this species even when four years old. The extended 
suborbital sinus, which in all Rusine Deer is very large, is well shown in the figures. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 
PLATE XXVIII. 
Cervus davidianus, male and female, from the pair presented by Sir Rutherford Alcock, 
C.M.Z.S., taken shortly after their arrival, August 2nd, 1869. Height at shoulders 
3 ft. 10 in. 
PLATE XXIX. 
Cervus maral, adult male and female, in winter dress, and fawn, copied from an original 
water-colour drawing by Wolf, composed from animals living in the Society's 
Gardens. Height at shoulders 4 ft. 6 in. 
PLATE XXX. 
Cervus cushmeerianus, adult male, taken in November 1867. Height at shouiders 
4-f¢. 5 in. 
PLATE XXXII. 
Cervus mantchuricus, in summer dress, from an original water-colour drawing by Wolf, 
prepared from the typical example in the Society’s Gardens. Height at shoulders 
3 ft. 8 in. 
PLATE XXXII. 
Cervus mantchuricus, in winter dress, taken from the same individual in April 1865. 
1 Cf. Swinhoe, P. Z. 8. 1869, p. 659. 
* See Jerdon, Ind. Mamm. p. 260, and P. Z. 8. 1869. p. 658. 
