ARKIV FÖE ZOOLOGI. 



Band 3. X:o 14. 



Wliicli is tlie taxoiioinic position of tlie Irisli 

 Oiaiit Deer aiicl allied races? 



By 



EINAR LÖNNBERG. 



With 2 Figures in tlie Text. 



At tlie first look such a question a.s the ohe expressed 

 above may appear uiinecessary, because the Giant Deer of 

 Ireiand and the allied races of the continent have been p]a- 

 ced without hesitation by the best authorities witli the Fal- 

 low Deer. There is no need of many quotations to prove 

 this. In liis fine work »The Deer of all lands» ^ Lydecker 

 names these animals »Giant Fallow Deer» (1. c. p. 134), and 

 places them in the »Damine Group», or the »Suhgenus Dama» 

 of the genus Cervus. 



In a similar Avay Max Weber in his very valuable ma- 

 nual »Die Säugetiere»- mentions the Giant Deer directly af- 

 ter Dama, and expresses his views with the following words : 

 »In diese Reihe von Hirschen gehört + C. helgrandi Lärt. 

 aus dem Mittel-Pleistocän Deutschlands, Frankreicljs und 

 Englands, und die verschiedenen. lokalen Formen von + C. 

 gigantens Blumenb. aus dem Pleistocän Europas, der mit dem 

 Diluvialmenschen zusammen lebte» (1. c. p. 671). Finally in 

 »Catalogus Mammahum», even in the »Quinquennale SuppJe- 

 mentum» printed 1905, Trouessart enumerates Megaceros as 

 a subgenus of Cervus standing next to Dama. This may be 



^ London 1898. 

 2 Jena 1904. 



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