70 CERVID^, 



' Mammiferes,' t. 356, from an animal obtained in Nepal. Mr. Blyth 

 thinks it may be the Hungal (^Cervus casJimirensis), and Dr. Jerdon the 

 Shou (Cervus affinis) ; but in either case it cannot be the Caucasian 

 Deer. 



a. Cervus cameloides, A. Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. 1867, vii. 

 p. 377. Eab. Mandshuria. Not described. 



b. Tail elongate, acute at the end. 

 2. PSEUDAXIS. 



Antlers round, erect, with an anterior basal snag, a median on the 

 front, and a suag above it on the hinder side of the beam. Tail 

 elongate, tapering, with longer hair at the tip. Fur spotted ; anal 

 disk white, with black cross band at base of tail. 



1. Pseudaxis taivanns. (Formosan Axis.) B.M. 



Fur pale yellowish brown, white-spotted ; rump and uppcrside of 

 tail black. 



Cervus axis, Cantor, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. 1842, p. 174. 



Cervus pseudaxis, Eydoux Sf Soideyet, Voy. Bonite, p. 64, t. 3 ; 



Pucheran, Arch, du Mus. vi. p. 416, and 4»9, t. 24. f. 2, 8 (horns) ; 



Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 644, 1871, p. 237. 

 Axis pseudaxis, Gray, Cat. TJnqul. B. M. p. 214. 

 Cervus taiouanus, Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xxix. p. 90; P. Z. S. 1861. 

 Cervus taevanus, Sclafer, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 376, 1862, p. 152, t. 16 



Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 34-5; Wolfs Zool. Sketch, ii. t. 14. 

 Cervus taivanus, Blyth, Cat. p. 148 ; Sclatcr, Trans. Zool. Sac. vii. 



t. 33, 34. 



Hah. Formosa (SivinJioe). 



Pucheran says these auimals are obtained from Java and the Sunda 

 Islands ; but most probably they were carried there. He says the 

 mule of C. axis and pseudaxis is said to be fertile. 



" Mr. Swinhoe sent an adult male and female and a younger animal, 

 which were shot in the gardens of the Summer Palace at Pekin in the 

 winter of 1860. 



" The male agrees in most particulars with the account of the 

 Cervus pseudaxis of Eydoux, figured by Gervais in the ' Voyage of 

 the Bonite,' and its horns with those of the same animal figured by 

 Dr. Pucheran iu the ' Archives du Museum ' (vol. iv. t. 24. f. 2-8). 

 The specimens having been procured in the wiutor, agree with the 

 figures of the animal in that state on M. Gervais's plate. Mr. 

 Swinhoe thought it might be the Cervus Wallichii of Cuvier ; but it 

 has no afiinity to that species." (Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1861, 

 viii. p. 338.) 



The animal which has been figured under the name of Cervus 

 pseudaxis was obtained by MM. Eydoux and Soideyet in Java, but 

 they did not believe that it was a native of that country. It lived 

 several years in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, and hence a series 

 of its horns was procured and figured ; and while there it bred with 



