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Dama, from which, however, it differs in the characters oi the 

 antlers, the absence of clefts on the front-pasterns, and the 

 fuller union of the liind-hoofs l)y means of an interuugual 

 web. 



The range is restricted to I'eninsular India and Ceylon. 



I. CERVUS (AXIS) AXIS. 



Cervus axis, Erxlehen, Syst. Begn. Aiiim. p. 312, 1777; F. Cuvier, 

 Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol, i, pis. 102 and 103, 1819 ; H. Smith, 

 Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 117, 1827 ; J. B. Fischer, 

 Synop. Mamm. p. 451, 1829; Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Begne Anim., 

 Mamm. p. 172, 1842 ; Gar rod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 17 ; Broohc, 

 ibid. 1878, p. 906 ; Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Miis. 

 B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 203, 1884; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. 

 Ind. Mils. pt. ii, p. 181, 1891 ; Blanford, Fauna, Brit. India, 

 Mamm. p. 546, 1891 ; Lydelker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 289, 1893, 

 Deer of All Lands, p. 179, pi. xiii, 1898, Great and Small Game 

 of hidia, etc. p. 220, 1900, Game Animals of hidia, etc. p. 233, 

 1907; Nitsche, Studien ilher Hirsche, p. 94, 1898; Benth.am, 

 Asiat, Horns and Antlers Ind. Mus. p. 80, 1908 ; Ward, Becords 

 of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 68, 1910. 



Cervus (Axis) axis, H. Smith, Griffitli's Animal Kingdom, vol. v, 

 p. 312, 1827 ; Lydekker, Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 38, 

 1913, Ward's Becords of Big Game, ed. 7, p. 70, 1914. 



Cervus nudipalpebra, Ogilhy, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 136. 



Axis maculatus,* Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. iii, pp. vi 

 and 167, t pi. xiii, 1835; Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 178, 



1843, List Osteol. Brit. Mus. p. 66, 1847, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, 

 p. 233, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 212, 1852, Cat. Buminants 

 Brit. Mus. p. 80, 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 152, 

 1873 (maculata) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 262, 1862; Jer don, Mamm. India, p. 260, 1867; Fit zing er, 

 Sitzber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixx, pt. i, p. 264, 1874; 

 Stei-ndale, Mamm. India, p. 506, 1884 ; Percy, Big Game 

 Shooting {Badminton Libr.), vol. ii, p. 264, 1894. 



Axis major and minor, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. x, 



p. 941, 1841. 

 Cervus (Hippelaphus) axis, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vef.-Ak. Handl. 



1844, p. 180, 1846. 



Hyelaphus maculatus, Fifzinger, Sitzber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wieu, 



vol. Ixx, pt. 1, p. 259, 1874. 

 Axis nudipalpebra, Fitzinger, op. cit. p. 270, 1874. 

 Axis (Axis) axis, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 948. 

 Axis axis, Wroughton, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. xxi, 



p. 1193, 1912; Cabrera, Cat. Met. Mam. Mus. Madrid, p. 130, 



1912 ; Dodsioortli, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. xxii, 



p. 748, 1914. 



* Or maculata. 



t Misprinted aculatus in text. 



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