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tending thence northward to the Munnipur valley : it is also in Siam, 
as I have been recently informed by Sir It. H. Schomburgk ; and 
the late Dr. Cantor obtained a fine skull with horns from Kedda, 
within the eastern confines of the Malayan peninsula but it does 
not appear to inhabit Martaban and the Tenasserim provinces. I 
repeatedly saw the venison of this species (the Thdmine) for sale in the 
Itangoon provision bazar, together with that of the Samur (or Sclidp ), 
Hog-deer ( Purai, pronounced Pray), and Muntjac {Gee), indeed the 
four species together on one occasion ; but always frightfully hacked by 
the Burmese, who do not even skin the animal before chopping it up. 
In Moulmein the Samur is commonly brought to the bazar in two 
entire unskinned halves, with the entrails taken out; and there also 
I remarked Hog Deer and Muntjac or ‘ Barking Deer’ venison, but 
brought in less quantity, than to Itangoon. With Major S. It. 
Tickell, at Moulmein, I saw a young living buck of the Tdiamine , 
bearing its second horns, small, but of the typical or ultimate con¬ 
figuration ; and a skull with similar horns (of the same age) was 
presented through me to the Society by Dr. Prichard of Itangoon, 
procured in the provision-bazar of that place ;t the living animal is 
exceedingly like the Indian Para Singdia (C. Dtjvaucelii) in all 
but the horns, but is inferior in size ; having the summer-coat bright 
rufous, with traces of menilling, more conspicuous in some does (as 
likewise in C. Dutaucelii and C. roitciNus). Among the drawings 
bequeathed by Gen. T. Hardwicke to the British Museum is one of a 
very spotted buck of C. Duvattcelii from the Bengal Sundarbans, 
That this species does inhabit the Eastern Sundarbans, I have 
been assured; and the winter-coat is much darker and browner, 
of coarser texture, and considerably elongated about the neck. The 
habits resemble those of the Indian Para Sinfha: this animal 
being much more gregarious, and more confined to open glades in 
the forest, than are the other Deer of the same region. Lt. Eld has 
well described the habits of the species in the Calc. Journal N, II., II, 
415. The horns of the Munnipur animal can generally be distin¬ 
guished from those of the more southern race, by being longer, 
# Many years ago, Capt. Harold Lewis presented tlie Society with a fine pair 
of horns of this species on the frontlet, which he obtained at Pinang, and which 
were, doubtless (like those of Dr. Cantor), from the Kedda district. 
t To Dr. Prichard, the Society is also indebted for the photograph of the two 
Andamanese, figured in Vol. XXX, 251. 
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