970 



UXGULATA 



at shoulder of mounted male in Tufiii Museum 800 mm.), Init 

 general colour darker than in any of the small continental forms. 

 Measurements. — For cranial measurements see Table, p. 984. 



Specwiens examined. — Four, all from Corsica (Turin). 



Genus DAMA Hamilton Smith. 



1827. Dama Hamilton Smith, Griffith's Cuvier, Auim. Kiugrl., v, p. 306. 



1844. Platyccros Wagner, SchreLer's Saugth., Suppl., iv, p. 317. 



1855. Dactyloceros Wagner, Schreber's Saugth. , Suppl. v, p. 352 (Substitute 



for Dama and Flatyceros). 

 1857. Ccrvus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutsehlands, p. 39 (part). 

 1893. MacJilis Zittel, Handb. Palaeont. iv, p. 402 (published as a synonym 



of Dama with Kaup as authority). 

 1898. Palmatus Lydelskcr, Deer of all Lands, p. 125. Wrongly attributed 



to Giebel, Saugethiere, p. 351 (a group name used in the plural : 



" Palmati mit schaufelformigem Gewieh "). 



Ti/i)e species. — Cervus dama Linnseus. 



Geograpliical distrihution. — Mediterranean region of southern 

 J]urope and western Asia ; occurs in a condition of semi- 

 domestication as far ncn'th as the British Islands and southern 

 Scandinavia. 



Characters. — Like Cervus but with skull shorter and relatively 

 much broader, orbits lai'ger, maxillary canines absent, cheek- 

 teeth, particularly mr, more bracli3^dont, lower incisors (fig. 20')) 

 excessively differentiated in both size and form ; antlers with 

 brow tine and trez tine present, and a distinct though narrow 

 palmation in region of surroyals.* 



Bonarks. — The Fallow Deer form a sharply defined group 

 generically distinct from Ccrvus. Two species are known, one of 

 which occurs in Europe. 



DAMA DAMA Linn;i'us. 



1758. [Cervus] dama Linnteus, Syst. Nat., i, 10th ed., p. G7. 



1798. Cervus platyccros Cuvier, Tabl. Elem. do I'Hist. Nat. dcs Anim., 



p. IGO (Renaming of dama). 

 1816. L (sic) [ervus] mauricus F. Cuvier, Bull, des Sci. Soc. Philomath., 



1816, p. 72 (locality not known). 



* The extinct genus Alee Blumenbach (Handb. d. Naturgesch., 6th ed., 

 p. 697, 1799, type Alec giganteus Blumenbach from the peat bogs of 

 Ireland = " Ctvi,-z(s mcgnceros" Auct. or " 2Iegaccros Jiibernicus" Auct.), 

 though usually regarded as related to Dama, or even as identical with it 

 (see Lydekker, Deer of all Lands, pp. 126-127, 1898, for statement of 

 this extremely radical view), differs widely from all known genera of recent 

 deer in the combination of xalesiometacarpalian foot, high vomer nearly 

 dividing posterior nares into two cavities, absence of maxillary canines and 

 excessively reduced lachrymal vacuity (see Lonnberg, Arkiv for Zoologi, 

 III, No. 14, August, 1906). 



