THE MANTCHUKIAX DEEE. 
Ceruus mantchuricus. 
Plate XIII. 
This noble animal is one of the most recent additions made to the Society’s series of the Deer of the 
Old World, which embraces examples of nearly every known species. The fine male, from which Mr. Wolf’s 
figure was taken, was purchased for the Society by Mr. Robert Swinlioe, at Newchang in Northern China, in 
1864, and reached the Gardens in July of that year. No second example of this Deer has yet been received 
in this country, but I believe there has been an individual, likewise a male, in the Jardin d’Acclimatation 
at Paris. 
The Mantchurian Deer is nearly allied to the Japanese Deer (Cervus sika) and the Formosan Deer (Cervus 
taivanus), but is much larger than either of these species, and is distinguishable by other characters. When 
the celebrated summer palace of the Chinese Emperors, near Pekin, was destroyed by the British and French 
in the winter of 1860, herds of deer, which are considered by Mr. Swinhoe to have been of this species, 
were discovered in the surrounding parks, and fell a prey to the ruthless soldiery. 
