72 CEEVID^. 



The male skull has short canines, not produced beyond the sur- 

 face of the bone ; the female has the holes of smaller canines which 

 have fallen out. 



2. Pseiidaxis mantchurica. B.M. 



Dark brown ; rump and upper part of tail black ; paler and white- 

 spotted in summer. 



Cervus WallicLii, Sivinhoe, P. Z. S. 18G1, p. 1.34. 



CeiTus pseiidaxis, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 236, t. 27. 



Cervus hortulorum, Sivinhoe, P. Z. <S'. 1864, p. 168. 



CeiTus mantchiu-icus, Sivinhoe, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 721, 186.5, p. 1 ; 



Sclafer, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 721; Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 344, t. 31, 32; 



Wolfs Zool. Sketches, ii. t. 13. 



Hah. Northern China, the Emperor's Park, Pekin (Swinhoe). B.M. 



3. Pseudaxis sika. B.M. 



Yellowish brown, white-spotted. Dorsal disk and tail white, 

 black-edged. Horns subrusine, but more slender. Gland on tarsus 

 encircled with white. 



Rusa japouica, G/r/y, Ann. S)- Mac/. N. JI. 1861, iii. p. 218. 



Cer\-us pseiidaxis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 236, t. 27. 



Cervus sika, Tcmminck, Faima Japmiica, p. o4, tab. 17 ; Gray, Cat. 



Ungid. P. M. p. 200; Ann. Sf May. 2i. JI. 1881, vol. viii. p. 338; 



Wolf's Zool. Sketch, ii. 1. 15 ; Sclater, Trans. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 346, 



t. 35. 

 Eusa javanica, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 376 (as a mistake ioTjaponica). 



■ Hah. Japan. 



Yery like a series of animals (for now we have two pairs, and 

 they are breeding) which were received a short time ago by the Zoo- 

 logical Society from Japan, and which I described, under the name 

 of llusa japouica, in the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural Histoiy,' 

 for February ISGl, p. 143; and in the form of the horns and in 

 the general appearance of the animal it agrees with the Cervus sika, 

 Temminck, very briefly described and figured in the ' Fauna Japo- 

 uica.' 



Dr. Sclater, in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' has 

 stated his opinion that my Musa japouica is probably the same as 

 Cervus sika, and also as Cervus pseudaxis. But Cervus pseudaxis 

 and Rusa japonica differ from Cervus sikn in having a large white 

 anal disk surrounded by a black edge, which is not represented in 

 the figure of Cervus sika, nor mentioned in the short and, I own, 

 very imperfect description of that species. (Gray, Ann. & Mag. 

 N. H. 1861, viii. p. 33S.) 



I believe that Dr. Sclater is now satisfied that the identity of my 

 Rusa japonica with Cervus sika is very doubtful. Indeed I cannot 

 conceive how this can be otherwise, unless the Cervus sika is very 

 badly figured and incorrectly described. We may therefore regard 

 Cervus sika as a distinct species, at least until we can procure some 



