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*IR V. BROOK K OX CERVUS SCHOMHUKUKI. 



Mar. 



5. Ou Cervus schomburgki (Blyth). 

 By Sir Victor Brooke, Bart., F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived February 11, 1876.] 



No fresh information of any consequence having been added to 

 our knowledge of Cervus schomburgki since Mr. Blyth's original 

 notice of the species (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 155, and 1867, p. 835), I 

 have thought the following details and specific diagnosis, based on 

 specimens which I recently received from Siain, and on an adult stag 

 mounted in the gallery of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, 

 worthy of the Society's notice. For the Siamese specimens, which 

 consist of the frontlet and horns of a remarkably fine old male, and 

 a pair of loose horns of abnormal and very interesting growth, 1 

 am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Campbell, late resident medical 

 officer of the British Consulate at Bangkok. Respecting the locality 

 from which the specimens were obtained, Dr. Campbell writes, " in 

 reply to your queries, I believe that all the specimens were procured 

 in Northern Siam, probably even in the tributary States named 

 Laos or Shan." The horns of the normal specimen (fig. 1), which 

 are of very vigorous growth, possessing 20 distinct points, present 

 all the characters described by Mr. Blyth as typical of the horns of 



Fie. 1. 



Normal antlers of C. sehomburgh 



