558 MR. R. I. POCOCK ON A 



mice, hard-boiled egg, and cockroaches. It left the nest at a month 

 old, and at five weeks old may be described as follows: — 



Upper parts pale brown, darker and with a rufous shade on the 

 mantle, the rump and upper tail-coverts being dark brown. The 

 crown of the head and neck barred with dark brown ; the wings 

 also covered with fine wavy lines of dark brown on a paler ground. 



The abdomen and under tail-coverts whitish. 



The bill very dark brown, the legs and feet dark grey, and the 

 iris veiy pale silvery grey. 



EXPLANATION OP PLATE LXIX. 



Fig. 1. Young Cariama cristata 24 days old, in nest. 

 Fig. 2. „ . „ ,, 30 days old, witb parent. 



Fisjs. 3 & 4. „ „ 2 months old. 



PAPERS, 



30. On a rare Stag ( Cen-us waUichii) from Nepal recently 

 presented to the Zoological Society by His Majesty 

 King George. By K. I. Pocock, F.R.S., F.L.S"., 

 F.Z.S., Superintendent o£ the Gardens. 



[Received March 19, 1912 : Read April 2, 1912.] 

 (Text-figures 66-71.) 



Index. 



Systematic ; Page 

 Cermis walUchii Cuv., Western Tibet, text-figs. 



66-69 559 



„ hangJii Wagu., syn. cashmeriensis Adams, 



cashmcerianus Falc, Kashmir, text-fig. 70 566 



„ affiiiis Hodgs., Choombi Valley, Lhasa, etc. 567 



„ macneiUi Lydd., Szechueu, text-fig. 71 ... 570 



„ kansuensis, nov., Kansu 572 



Characters of these species tabulated 574 



Cervus albirostris, Tibet 574 



From the scientific standpoint the most interesting animal 

 in the collection from Nepal presented by H.M. the King to the 

 Zoological Society was a large Stag belonging to a species 

 {Cermis wallichii) which has never been previously exported 

 alive from India, and, so far as available records show, has 

 never been shot or preserved by any English sportsman, and is 

 therefore unrepresented in any of the large musei^nis of the 

 world. The arrival of this specimen, moreover, has made it 

 possible to classify a species which for nearly a century has 

 been a puzzle to all systematic workers on the Deer. 



