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imported into France from Mantchuria and the north of China, 
to which latter the Formosan animal will perhaps prove to belong. 
The doe of C. sika, in summer dress, is of a dull fawn-colour, 
menilled with whitish, though less conspicuously so than many 
Fallow Deer in summer ; there is a large pure white patch on 
the buttocks below the root of the tail, the longest white hairs com- 
posing it diverging outwards (a character which may well he lost in 
a dry skin, to which attention had not been paid in this particular) ; 
the white being surmounted by a black border which is broadish in 
the middle and passing down a little on each side of the white, so as 
to form the letter T ; tail longish, and white, with a brown mesial 
line ; a black dorsal list, more strongly developed along the neck and 
between the shoulders ; front of the neck, lower-parts, and inside 
of limbs, dull greyish a little albescent ; outside and front of the 
limbs somewhat nigrescent, with the oval tuft of whitish hair below 
the hock (externally) very conspicuous : ear-conch somewhat large, 
grey without, contrasting with the fawn hue of the body, and with 
whitish hairs interiorly’ especially fringing the anterior margin. The 
young buck is nearly similar, hut the menilling is less distinct, as 
likewise the black dorsal and humeral list. The older buck is merety 
a little darker, with the pale spots all but obliterated ; his horns 
are still those of an immature animal, having simply a brow- antler, 
and a forked crown, the bifurcation of which is parallel to the axis 
of the body. Height of the elder buck, at croup, about ft. ; tail 
(vertebra) about 4 in., or with hair 7 in. ; head about 1 1 in. ; and 
ear about G in. Doe smaller, in the usual proportion.* 
* In p. 112 antea, I described a new Cassowary by the name CastjaeiuS un- 
appendiculatus ; being the fourth known species of the genus. I regret to add 
that this hitherto unique bird lias since died, and is mounted as a stuffed spe- 
cimen, which I hope to exhibit at the next meeting of the Society. Already 
Mr. P. L. Sclater has announced a fifth species, which he styles C. iucaruncu- 
X.ATUS, — founded on a specimen now living in the London Zoological Gardens 
(Proc. Zool. Soc., May 8th, 1860). He has likewise described a third species of 
Nandou, by the name Rhea mackoruykcha (ibid., April 24th), also from an. 
example now living in the garden ; and the Zoological Society are further fortu- 
nate in having obtained living specimens of the new barred Emeu (Dkomaius 
ikroeatus, Bartlett), from W. Australia. The Society has at this time the 
finest collection of living brevipemtate birds ever brought together, — viz. Os- 
triches (Steuthio) from N. and from S. Africa, three species of S. American 
Nandou (Rhea), two species of Emeu (Dromaius), three of Cassowary (Castja- 
eius), and one of- the three (or four ?) species of ‘ Kiwi’ (Apteryx mabtellii). 
This sudden discrimination of so many species of brevipennate birds is most 
remarkable. 
