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himself, from repeated observations, that Indian Deer do not shed their horns 
anmmlly. 
Ccrvus. Mr, Sclnter has published a report on certain species of Deer now 
or lately living in the Zoological Gardens, Regent’s Park. Trans. Zool. Soc. 
1871, vii. pp. 333-352. These notes refer chiefly to the synonymy and geo- 
graphical distribution of the species, and to the history of their introduction 
hito the Menagerie. The species are the following : — 
’ 1. Cervus davidianus, p. 333, pi. 28, young male and female. The author 
I reduces Elaphurus to the rank of a subgeneric gi*oup. 
I 2. Cervus maral^ p. 336, pi. 29, male, female, and fawn. It is doubtful for 
\ which Deer the term C. wallicJii was originally intended ; consequently it 
has been misapplied more than once ; but probably it belongs to C. affinis, 
I 3. Cervus cashmirianus, p. 339, pi. 30, adult male. 
I 4. Cervus mantsclmricus, p. 345, pis. 31 & 32, male in summer and winter 
{ dress. 
I 5. Cervus taemnus, p. 345, pis. 33 & 34, male, female, and young. 
I 6. Cervus sika, p. 346, pi. 35, male and female. 
7. Cervus duvauceli, p. 346, pi. 36, male and female. 
[ 8. Cervus eldt, p. 348, pis. 37 & 38, male in summer and winter dress. 
\ 9. Cervus swmhoii, p. 349, pi. 39, male. 
\ Woodcuts of the heads of most of these species are added. 
Cervus taevatius=C. pseudaxis (Eyd. & Soul.). Swinhoe & Sclater, P. Z, S. 
1871, p. 237. 
Cervus tdfredi (Sclater). Antler figured. Sclater, 1. c. It is from the 
Philippine Islands, id., ibid. p. 478. 
Cervus pudu, figured, 1. Ci pi. xvii. Antlers figured. Sclater, 1. c. pp. 238, 
239. 
Cervus xanthopygus described by M.-Edwards, Recherch. Mammif. p. 181, 
pi. 21. — Cervus mandarinus, sp. n., M.-Edwards, ibid. p. 184, pis. 22 & 22 A, 
Peking. 
Cervus alecs. The memoir by J. F. Brandt, an abstract of which we have 
noticed in Zool. Record, vii. p. 14, has been published in M^m. Ac. St. P^tersb. \ 
xvi. no. 6, 1870, pp. 84, with 3 plates. As the contents and scope of this ex- , 
cellent and painstaking treatise are properly described by the title, we give it * 
here in full: — ‘^Beitrage zur Naturgeschiclite des Elends in Bezug auf seine \ 
morpliologischen imd palfeontologisclien Verhaltnisse, sowie seine geo- | 
graphische Yerbreitung nebst Bemerkungen liber die miociine Flora und In- 
sectenfauna des Iloclinordens.” The figures on the three plates represent 
numerous variations of the horns. — A note on ** Spike-horns ” (see Zool. Rec. 
vii. p. 14), by Putnam, in Amer. Nat. 1871, iv. p. 763. 
Cervus capreolus. Horns, abnormally developed, figured by Gray, P. Z. S. 
1871, p. 601. 
llydropotcs inermis has constantly five or six young ones at a birth. 
Hamilton, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 258. — Remarks on the skull, id.y ibid. p. 702. 
Auclienia lama. Historical notes, with some other observations on the 
Guanaco, in R. O. Cunningham’s ‘Notes on the Natural History of the Strait 
of Magellan,’ p. 106, with a plate representing the skull. — Notes on the 
Guanaco in the wild state by Masters, ‘ At Home with the Patagonians,’* 
London, 1871, 8vo. It has only one young at a birth. 
1871. [voL. VIII.] 
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