1867.] Capt. R. C. Beavan on Panolia Etdi. 175 



Contributions towards a history of Panolia Eldi ; McLelland. 

 By Captain It. C. Beavan, C, M. Z. S. &c. 

 The published accounts of this comparatively rare species of deer 

 are scattered through Lack 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 Deer, McLelland, Calcutta Journ. N. H. Vol. I. p. 501, 



PI XII. 

 Cervus Eldi, Guthrie, (Calcutta Journ. N. II. Vol. II. p. 405 7 



PI. XII. 

 C. h/ratus, Schinz. Syn. Mam. II 395. 



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

 0. smithi, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 45. 

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

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



Osteol. B. M. QQ. 

 Cervus (Rasa) frontalis, McLelland, Calcutta Journ. N. II. III. p. 



401, PL XIII. Sundcvall, Pecora, 132. 

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

 Osteol. B. M. GG : Knowsley Mcnag. Cat. Mam. in Museum 

 As. Soc. Bengal, BlytL, 18G3, p. 149. 

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

 Eld : Thamyn of Burmah. 



Eab. 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 spedes 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. Yol. I. p. 501, PI. XII. 



