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able to eousult. But Mr. Bartlett, who has lately returned from 

 Holland, informs me that a female Deer living in the Gardens at 

 Amsterdam, and there considered as Cervus sika, is undoubtedly the 

 same as ours ; and as the Dutch naturalists have consulted the type 

 in the Leyden Museum, there appears to be little doubt of the fact. 

 I am therefore induced to believe that the following may prove to be 

 the correct synonymy of this species of Deer : — 



" Cervus sika, Temm. Sf Sieh. Fauna Japonica, Mamtn. pi. (fig. mala). 

 Cervus pseudaxis, Ei/d. S,- Soul. Voy. Bonite, Zool. p. 6-t, pi. 3 ; Ptieh. 



Arch. Mm. Par. v'i. pp. 416, 48'J ; Wagn. Suppl. Schreber's Sdug. 



V. p. 364 (?). 

 Cervus axis, ex China, Cantor, Ann. N. H. ix. p. 274. 

 Cervus taiouauus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxix. p. 90. 

 Rusa javanica, J. E. Gray, Ann. N. H. ser. 3. vi. p. 218. 



" Mr. Blyth, it may be remarked, is of opinion (J, A. S. B. xxix. 

 p. 90) that this Deer ' belongs strictly to the Elapliine, and not to 

 the A.v'me group,' and states that its skull 'has the same large 

 round infraorbital foramina as C. elaphus and its immediate conge- 

 ners.' "Sdater, P. Z. S. 1860, pp. 375-377. 



" The figure of Cervus sika in the ' Fauna Japonica ' appears to be 

 intended for this animal in winter dress, in which the spotting is 

 almost obsolete, although in our animals it never quite disappears. 

 The accompanying plate (xxxv.) represents this Deer in its suni- 

 mer dress. The figure in the ' Fauna Japonica ' is also incorrect in 

 not showing the conspicuous white of the anal region, which is nearly 

 as evident in winter as in summer." — Sclater, Trans. Z. S. vii. 



Dr. Schlegel, the Director of the Leyden Museum, has, in reply 

 to an application from me, sent me this day (July 11, 1861) the fol- 

 lowing note on the specimen of C. sil-a in the Leyden collection : — 

 '• If you mean by the anal disk the whitish or yello^vish disk 

 which extends in the Common or Canada Stag above the tail, the 

 Japanese Stag decidedly shows nothing of this kind. In this species 

 the white colour is restricted to the abdomen, the inside of the thighs, 

 the anal region, and the greater end part of the taU : the root of the 

 tail is, on the contrary, of the same brown colour as the whole back 

 and the rest of the animal." (Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. viii. 1861, 



p. 338.) 



Dr. Sclater specially says that the white anal mark is distinct at 

 all seasons in A. japonica. 



3. DAMA. 



Antlers rounded below, expanded above, smooth and branched on 

 the hinder edge. Tail elongate, compressed, ending iu a pencil of 

 hair. Crumen well developed. Fur close, adpressed. (Gray, Cat. 

 Mamm. p. 200, t. 28. f. 2, 3, t. 30. f. 1 ; Blasius, Siiugeth. Deutsch. 



f. 237.) 



1. Dama vulgaris. (The Fallow Deer.) B.M. 



Dama vulgaris. Gray, Cat. Unyul. B. M. p. 200. 



Cervus dama, Blasius, SiiuyetJi. Deutsch. p. 453, f. 236,237. 



Cervus mauricus, F. Cuvii'r, N. Bullet. Soc. Phil. p. 72, 1816. 



