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FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM

PUBLICATION 20.
ZOOLOGICAL SERIES. VOL. i, No. 7.

REMARKS UPON TWO SPECIES
OF DEER

OF THE

GENUS CERVUS FROM THE PHIL-
IPPINE ARCHIPELAGO

BY

D. G. ELLIOT, F. R. S. E.,

CURATOR OK DEPARTMENT.

CHICAGO, U. S. A.
June, 1897.

REMARKS UPON TWO SPECIES OF DEER OF THE GENUS
CERVUS FROM THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO, BY D.
G. ELLIOT, F. R. S. E._

In a former paper, issued last May (1896), I described two species
of deer from Basilan and Culion, respectively, of the Philippine Archi-
pelago, the first as C. steerii; and in the case of the latter I refrained
from bestowing a name upon it, as I had not seen the paper on Phil-
ippine deer published by Heude in China.

Cervus steerii was compared with C. philippinus and C. nigricans,
Brooke. Last autumn, having had an opportunity to examine the
type of C. philippinus in the Natural History Museum in the Jardin
des Plantes, Paris, through the courtesy of my friend, Dr. E. Oustalet,
I ascertained that my new species was hardly comparable with it
in any way save a similarity in the shape of the antlers; C. steerii is not
much over half the size of C. philippinus, and differs also in the color
of the coat. In fact it would seem to belong to quite another section of
the group, than that represented by C. philippinus. Beside the type,
there were several other examples of the species in the Museum, but
all of them, even the young animals, were much larger than the type
of C. steerii. It would seem, therefore, that we must look for its near
ally in some other species of Philippine deer, as yet unknown to me.

In the splendid library of the Zoological Society of London, I was
able to find a copy of Heude's paper on the deer of the Philippine
islands, and after careful search was unable to ascertain that the
species of deer described by me from Culion was mentioned. The
paper is really of little assistance in determining the various species,
and the author appears* to have seen a new one in almost every
example he procured, and unless one has access to the material in his
possession it will be practically impossible to recognize the animals
upon which he has bestowed so great a list of names. Therefore I
propose to christen the animal from Culion, and call it CERVUS
CULIONENSIS, in order that, at all events, the Museum specimens can
be intelligently referred to.

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