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quently with its own species. Beyond the progeny of those three animals, 

 no other specimens have been exhibited in the Society's gardens. In the 

 female skin in the British Museum the black line down the middle of the 

 back is very conspicuous, but it is not noticeable in that of the male. Sir 

 Victor Brooke regarded this species as closely allied to the Basilan sambar, 

 which it resembles in its small, bare ears and its flattened skull. The tail 

 and pelage are, however, quite unlike the sambar type, and the species 

 should apparently be regarded as indicating a distinct modification of the 

 group, not improbably related to the Indian spotted deer. 



Distribution. — The islands of Samar and Leyte, on the eastern side of the 

 centre of the Philippine group. 1 



4. The Calamianes Deer — Cervus culionensis 



Cervus sp., Elliot, Publ. Field Columbian Mas. — Zoo I. vol. i. p. 68 

 (1896). 



Cervus culionenis, Elliot, op. cit. p. 157 (1897). 



Characters. — A small uniformly brown deer, differing from all the pre- 

 ceding forms by the great length of the pedicles supporting the antlers, 

 and the large relative size of the auditory bulla? at the base of the skull ; 

 these two characters affiliating the species to the Bavian deer and the 

 hog-deer. 



The original description states that the build of this deer is rather stout, 

 with the hind-quarters elevated, the head being slender, with a rather long and 

 pointed nose. The hair is somewhat coarse and stiff, especially on the 

 flanks, where it is longest. The ears are relatively long, slightly rounded, 

 and thickly haired externally ; and the tail is rather bushy. As the antlers 

 of the type were in velvet and not fully developed, their characters could 

 not be given. The general colour of the upper-parts is uniform cigar-brown, 

 with a tinge of ochry, but a black stripe of about an inch in width runs 

 from the shoulders to the root of the tail ; the latter being brown above 

 and white beneath. The under-lip and chin are yellowish white, the chest, 

 shoulder, and much of the under-parts purplish brown, with long white 

 hairs intermingled, but the abdomen and inside of the thighs white, and 



1 See Meyer, op. cit. 



