558 MR. R. I. POCOCK ON A mice, hard-boiled egg, and cockroaches. It left the nest at a month old, and at five weeks old may be described as follows: — Upper parts pale brown, darker and with a rufous shade on the mantle, the rump and upper tail-coverts being dark brown. The crown of the head and neck barred with dark brown ; the wings also covered with fine wavy lines of dark brown on a paler ground. The abdomen and under tail-coverts whitish. The bill very dark brown, the legs and feet dark grey, and the iris veiy pale silvery grey. EXPLANATION OP PLATE LXIX. Fig. 1. Young Cariama cristata 24 days old, in nest. Fig. 2. „ . „ ,, 30 days old, witb parent. Fisjs. 3 & 4. „ „ 2 months old. PAPERS, 30. On a rare Stag ( Cen-us waUichii) from Nepal recently presented to the Zoological Society by His Majesty King George. By K. I. Pocock, F.R.S., F.L.S"., F.Z.S., Superintendent o£ the Gardens. [Received March 19, 1912 : Read April 2, 1912.] (Text-figures 66-71.) Index. Systematic ; Page Cermis walUchii Cuv., Western Tibet, text-figs. 66-69 559 „ hangJii Wagu., syn. cashmeriensis Adams, cashmcerianus Falc, Kashmir, text-fig. 70 566 „ affiiiis Hodgs., Choombi Valley, Lhasa, etc. 567 „ macneiUi Lydd., Szechueu, text-fig. 71 ... 570 „ kansuensis, nov., Kansu 572 Characters of these species tabulated 574 Cervus albirostris, Tibet 574 From the scientific standpoint the most interesting animal in the collection from Nepal presented by H.M. the King to the Zoological Society was a large Stag belonging to a species {Cermis wallichii) which has never been previously exported alive from India, and, so far as available records show, has never been shot or preserved by any English sportsman, and is therefore unrepresented in any of the large musei^nis of the world. The arrival of this specimen, moreover, has made it possible to classify a species which for nearly a century has been a puzzle to all systematic workers on the Deer.
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