372 MB. STANLEY S. SLOWER ON THE [Apr. 3, 



900 feet elevation, in the Dong Phya Fai : the right antler from 

 burr to tip measured along the curve 6*5 inches, the left 6-75 inches 

 (171 mm.). A deer we saw and heard on the Bangpakong River 

 in March 1897 was probably of this species, though I failed to 

 procure a specimen. 



Distribution. India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Cambodia, Hainan, 

 Malay Peninsula (Perak, Selangor, Malacca, Pahang), Sumatra, 

 Java, Lombok, Borneo. 



147. Cervus schomburgki Blvth. Schomburgk's Deer. 

 " Qua-an " of the Siamese. 



Distribution. Parts of Siarn. 



148. Certus eldi Guthrie. The Thameng. 



Panolia acuticornis, Cantor, p. 64. 



Cervus eldi, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 541, tig. 176. 



" Sam-an " of the Siamese. 



Cantor says " A single skull of a stag, killed in Keddah, has the 

 horns so like those of the Munneepore animal, that the species 

 might be taken to be identical, but that the Malays assert theirs to 

 be maned, and of a dark colour, with white spots, like the Axis. 

 This stag is further described as being extremely wary, and 

 therefore seldom seen but on heights inaccessible to man." H.H. 

 the Rajah Mudah of Kedah, who is keen on shooting, told me the 

 Thameng does not exist in Kedah ; antlers are sometimes conveyed 

 there from Siam, a pair of which probably were brought to Cantor, 

 with imaginary details to enhance their value, the statement that 

 they frequent " heights inacessible to man " being alone suspicions 

 in regard to this plain-dwelling species. 



W. L. Sclater (Cat. Mamm. Indian Mus. ii. 1891, p. 181) 

 records a frontlet of this species supposed to have been " brought 

 from Penang " in 1846 ; this may have been imported from Siam, 

 via Singora and Kedah. 



Mr. H. "Warington Smyth (' Five Years in Siam,' vol. ii. p. 217) 

 says the plain round Battambong " is much frequented by herds 

 of the Lamang, or EkVs Deer," and describes how the Cambodians 

 capture them. 



Distribution. Manipur, Burma, Siam, Cambodia, Hainan. 



149. Cervus unicolor Bechstein. The Sambar. 



Rusa equina, Cantor, p. 63. 



Cervus unicolor, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 543, fig. 177 

 (p. 544). 



" Nua " of the Siamese. 



" Rusa " of the Malays. 



Cantor records the Rusa from the Malay Peninsula and Penang ; 

 so far as I have been able to ascertain, it is now extinct in Penang, 

 and has been so for the last 25 or 30 years. H. J. Kelsall 



