1867.] Capt. B. C. Beavcm on Panolia .Eldi. 175 



Contributions towards a history of Panolia Eldi ; McLelland. 

 By Captain B. G. Beavan, C. M. Z. S. &c. 

 The published accounts of this comparatively rare species of deer 

 are scattered through hack numbers of various scientific periodicals 

 and proceedings of Societies, some of which are out of print, and 

 not easily procured. I have therefore brought together nearly all 

 that has been previously written on the subject, and added much 

 information on the manners and habits of the species procured during 

 a recent visit to its haunts in Burmah. 

 Panolia Eldi. The Sungnai. 

 Nondescript Peer, McLelland, Calcutta Journ. N. H. Vol. I. p. 501, 



PI XII. 

 Cervus Eldi, Guthrie, (Calcutta Journ. N. H. Vol. II. p. 405, 



PI. XII. 

 C. lyratus, Schinz. Syn. Mam. II 395. 



C. dimorphe, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. XII. p. 897. 

 C. smilhi, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 45. 

 Panolia acuticornis, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 180. 

 Panolia platyeercos, Gray. List Mamm. B. M. 181, adult; Cat, 



Osteol. B. M. 66. 

 Cervus (Rusa) frontalis, McLelland, Calcutta Journ. N. H. III. p. 



401, PI. XIII. Sundevall, Pecora, 132. 

 Panolia Eldi, (The Sungnai), Gray. Cat. Hodgson Coll. B. M. 34 ; 

 Osteol. B. M. 66 : Knowsley Menag. Cat. Mam. in Museum 

 As. Soc. Bengal, Blyth, 1863, p. 149. 

 Native names, Sungnai, apud Guthrie and Blyth : Sungraee apud 

 Eld : Thamyn of Burmah. 



Hab. Pegu, northward to the valley of Munipore : Siam : and prox- 

 imate portion of the Malayan Peninsula, (Kedda) Mergui, (Blyth.) 



The first notice we have of this deer, was published in 1841,* and 

 entitled — ' Indication of a nondescript species of Deer by John 

 McLelland." 



" Captain Guthrie of the Bengal Engineers, employed in the con- 

 struction of a road from the valley of Cachar to Monypore, procured the 

 horns of a deer whose lower, or basal antler descends in the axis of the 



* Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. Vol. I. p. 501, PI. XII. 



