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tending thence northward to the Munnipur valley : it is also in Siam, 

 as I have been recently informed by Sir R. H. Schomburgk ; and 

 the late Dr. Cantor obtained a fine skull with horns from Kedda, 

 within the eastern confines of the Malayan peninsula ;* but it does 

 not appear to inhabit Martaban and the Tenasserim provinces. I 

 repeatedly saw the venison of this species (the Tlidmine) for sale in the 

 Rangoon provision bazar, together with that of the Samur (or Bchdp), 

 Hog-deer (Durai, pronounced Dray), and Muntjac {Gee), indeed the 

 four species together on one occasion ; but always frightfully hacked by 

 the Burmese, who do not even skin the animal before chopping it up. 

 In Moulmein the Samur is commonly brought to the bazar in two 

 entire unskinned halves, with the entrails taken out ; and there also 

 I remarked Hog Deer and Muntjac or ' Barking Deer' venison, but 

 brought in less quantity than to Rangoon. With Major S. R. 

 Tickell, at Moulmein, I saw a young living buck of the Tlidmine, 

 bearing its second horns, small, but of the typical or ultimate con- 

 figuration ; and a skull with similar horns (of the same age) was 

 presented through me to the Society by Dr. Prichard of Rangoon, 

 procured in the provision-bazar of that place ;t the living animal is 

 exceedingly like the Indian Bard Sing'ha (0. Duvaucelii) in all 

 but the horns, but is inferior in size ; having the summer-coat bright 

 rufous, with traces of menilling, more conspicuous in some does (as 

 likewise in C. DuvAUCELii and C. poiicinus). Among the drawings 

 bequeathed by Gen. T. Hardwicke to the British Museum is one of a 

 very spotted buck of C. Duvattcelii from the Bengal Sundarbans. 

 That this species does inhabit the Eastern Sundarbans, I have 

 been assured ; and the winter-coat is much darker and browner, 

 of coarser texture, and considerably elongated about the neck. The 

 habits resemble those of the Indian Bard Singula : this animal 

 being much more gregarious, and more confined to open glades in 

 the forest, than are the other Deer of the same region. Lt. Eld has 

 well described the habits of the species in the Calc. Journal 1ST. H., II, 

 415. The horns of the Munnipur animal can generally be distin> 

 guished from those of the more southern race, by being longer, 



* Many years ago, Capt. Harold Lewis presented the Society with a fine pair 

 of horns of this species on the frontlet, which he obtained at Pitrnng, and which 

 were, doubtless (like those of Dr. Cantor), from the Kedda district. 



t To Dr. Prichard, the Society is also indebted for the photograph of the two 

 Andamanese, figured in Vol. XXX, 251. 



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