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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
viduals and accurately defining the limits between the 
species, and shall entirely set aside the imperfect and 
unintelligible accounts previously published from dried 
and mutilated specimens. Acting upon this principle 
we take as a starting point Sir Stamford Raffles's 
Descriptive Catalogue of a Zoological Collection made 
in Sumatra, published in the nineteenth volume of the 
Transactions of the Linnean Society, as containing 
the earliest descriptions, as well as the most accurate 
hitherto published, of two of the species, and a curs'^ry 
notice of the third. The species described are the 
Napu and the Kanchil of the natives of Sumatra, and 
that which is merely mentioned, the Pelandok. 
In the excellent paper just quoted. Sir Stamford 
Raffles has cited Pallas as his authority for giving the 
name of Javanicus to the first of these species ; but 
the brief description of that great zoologist is too 
imperfect to enable us to determine with precision to 
which of them his observations apply. As for BufFon's 
figure of the Chevrotain, it may be intended to repre- 
sent either the one or the other, but it has the characters 
of neither ; and Daubenton's descriptions which accom- 
pany it appear to comprise both. It is also somewhat 
doubtful to which of them BufFon's other figure of the 
Chevrotain de Java really belongs ; but even were it 
clear that the latter represented the Kanchil, this cir- 
cumstance would afford no ground for giving the name 
of Javanicus to it rather than to the Napu, inas- 
much as Gmelin, who was the original contriver of the 
name, cites no other author than Pallas. We turn 
therefore from doubt and conjecture to positive cer- 
tainty, and adopt without hesitation for the present 
species the earliest name that can be regarded as 
unquestionably its own. 
The living specimen now before us clearly belongs 
