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a fine opportunity is offered for comparison. The deep red colouring 

 of its hind neck and its larger size distinguish it from that species, 

 as well as the form of its horns, which are shown in the accompanying 

 sketch. (See woodcut.) The white spots on the Formosan Deer are 

 moreover lasting, and do not disappear in winter, as in most species. 

 This Deer is called by the Chinese Lok, or Stag. 



18. Cernls s^mmioit, Schter, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 152, PI. XVII. 



It was not till my late visit to the City of Taiwanfoo, S.W. Formosa, 

 that I came across this species. It struck me at once as a novelty, 

 and I managed to procure two bucks, both of which have fortunately 

 reached the Gardens of the Society in good health. On my visit to 

 the Tamsuy district, N.W. Formosa, I again met the animal in a 

 state of confinement in the hands of the Chinese, and secured a buck 

 for the Acclimatization Society of Melbourne ; but a live female I 

 could not manage to procure. This species may at once be distin- 

 guished from the other by its total want of spots, by the absence of 

 the white patch that adorns the parts about the tail, by its coarse 

 reddish brown hair, appearing almost black in some lights, but, above 

 all, by the occurrence of a large sac between the eye and nose. This 

 curious organ, whatever its properties may be, it has the power of 

 opening and shutting. It appears to be expanded most frequently 

 when the beast is irritated. At a distance the deer looks as if he 

 possessed four eyes, whence the Chinese definition of this species as 

 "the four-eyed." It is, however, more generally known in Formosa 

 as the " Cheeang." What the horns of this Deer are like we shall 

 not be able to tell for some months, until the animals in the Gardens 



