Further notice of a Nondescript Deer. 417 



It would be a great object gained could any live speci- 

 mens be procured for transmission to Europe, but it would 

 I fear be attended with much difficulty. I have known several 

 instances of the fawns being caught, and thriving well for 

 months, but at about a year old, they invariably pined away 

 and died ; nor have I known or heard of a single instance 

 of one having arrived at maturity, this too in their native 

 climate, and I therefore think the chances of one surviving 

 a voyage home but small. I have written to a friend in the 

 valley to send me a complete skeleton of one with the skin, 

 &c. and he has kindly promised to do so if he can succeed 

 in procuring one, but says he can hold me out but slender 

 hopes, as the Deer now seem to bear a charmed life, and 



roam about unpersecuted by any body. 



Percy Eld. 



Note. — The above communication, together with a drawing of the 

 horns, plate xii. has been forwarded by a correspondent, who suggests 

 that the animal be called Cervus Eldii. It would however be prema- 

 ture to name it before its zoological characters have been clearly 

 denned by an examination of a complete skin, and if possible a 

 skeleton. Had we not thought these parts essential, we should have 

 named the species three years ago from the horns supplied by 

 Capt. Guthrie, which were evidently of a young individual. Subse- 

 quently to the appearance of our notice, which appears to have elicit- 

 ed the above interesting remarks, Capt. Guthrie presented us with 

 a complete head of an adult and by that gentleman's exertions, to- 

 gether with those of Lieut. Eld, we hope soon to be put in possession 

 of the living animal itself . 



Report on the Tenasserim Coal Field. By Captain, Tremebtheere, 

 Executive Engineer, t. xiii. 



This coal field is situated on the great Tenasserim river, about 

 sixty- seven miles from the port of Mergui. The delta of the river 

 occupies twenty miles of coast, within which space there are many 

 outlets, but the navigable channel discharges itself three miles south 



