444 Mil. w. T, BLANFOED ON A [May 2, 



stated, is at once recognizable by the bi^ght chestnut bands, which 

 commence on each side or the forehead and are cai'ried over the 

 head behind the ears, I may also remark that the lower part of 

 the back and upper surface of the tail are stained with red, which 

 is not shown in my original figure of this Monkey (P. Z. S. 1892, 

 pi. xl). 



2. On a Stag, Cervus thoroldi, from Tibet, and on the Mam- 

 mals o£ the Tibetan Plateau. By W. T. Blanford, 

 F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. 



[Eeceived May 2, 1893.] 

 (Plate XXXIV.) 



In the course of Captain Bower and Dr. "W. G. Thorold's 

 adventurous journey across the Tibetan plateau from west to east, 

 two specimens of a Stag were shot by the latter at a spot about 

 200 miles N.E. of Lhassa\ These animals were killed in the snow 

 amongst brushwood just above the forest, at an elevation of about 

 13,500 feet above the sea. Of one individual a complete skin, 

 skull, and horns have been brought to England, and are now in 

 the Natural History Museum ; of the other, the head with the skin 

 and horns has been preserved and has been left by Dr. Thorold 

 in London, so that I have been able to examine both. 



Last February I received a letter from Dr. Thorold in which he 

 asked me to look at the specimens and let him know to what 

 species I thought they belonged. Some time before this I had 

 heard from Mr. Oldfield Thomas that the complete specimen had 

 been received by the Museum but had been sent away to be stuffed. 

 I, however, saw the head, which had been mounted, and although I 

 did not like to come to any decided conclusion without having an 

 opportunity of seeing the skin also, I was disposed to believe that 

 the Deer was probably the same as that to an immature horn of 

 which the name of Cervus nariyanus was given by Hodgson in 1851, 

 and was clearly identical with the species of which the head was 

 described and figured by Mr. W. L. Sclater in 1889 (J. A. S. B. 

 Iviii. pt. 2, p. 186, pi, xi.), and which was sho\^'n to be allied to the 

 Mantchurian 0. dyhowskii. 



For the last two months the skin has been in the hands of the 

 taxidermists, but I have at length, by permission of Dr. Giinther, 

 been able to examine it ; and I have now no hesitation in saying 

 that 1 believe the Stag obtained by Dr. Thorold must be regarded 

 as an additional peculiar species of the extraordinarily specialized 

 mammalian fauna inhabiting the Tibetan plateau. The following 

 are the principal characters : — 



The animal is about the size of a Bed Deer, C. elaphus. The 



^ I ain indebted to Captain Bower for several of the details. The approxi- 

 mate position is in lat. 31° 40' N., and long. 93° 30' E. 



