272 MOSTLY MAMMALS 
All that concerns us here is the fact that among the loot 
sent home from the destruction of the Yuangming Yuan 
were the skins and antlers of certain deer which had been 
shot in the gardens. These specimens, now in the British 
Museum, appear to have been obtained by Colonel Saul, 
although Consul Swinhoe was the gentleman by whom they 
were sent to this country. 
Although there does not appear to be any record that 
such was the case, these specimens may be taken as an 
indication that among the other attractions of the grounds 
of the Summer Palace were herds of deer, kept either for 
the purposes of sport or to enhance the beauty of the 
landscape. The best of the three specimens sent home 
was a young stag in the winter coat, of which a coloured 
figure was given in the Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society of London for 1861. By the late Dr. Gray, then 
keeper of the Zoological Department of the British Museum, 
this deer was regarded as belonging to an ill-defined species 
named many years before. Two years later this identifi- 
cation was disputed by Mr. Swinhoe, by whom it was 
regarded as representing a new species, for which the 
name Cervus hortulorum—the deer of the (Summer Palace) 
Gardens—was, appropriately enough, suggested. 
For many years this species was regarded as inseparable 
from one inhabiting Manchuria, which is now known to 
be a very different animal. But among the deer now 
living in the Duke of Bedford’s park at Woburn are a 
herd of a very beautiful species from Northern Manchuria, 
which is now ascertained to be identical with Mr. Swin- 
hoe’s Cervus hortulorum. These Peking deer (as it has 
now been agreed to call the species) are remarkable for 
the extraordinary difference between their summer and 
winter dress—a difference so great that persons who have 
