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91. 8. 7. o7. Skull aud antlers. Bengal Sanderbaus. 



^ame histonj. 

 91. 8. 7. 38-39. Two skulls, with antlers. Eohilkhand ; 

 collected by Eoss Scott, Esq. Same history. 



98. 8. 8. 1. Skin, mounted. India. 



Presented hy the Duke of Bedford, K.G., 1898. 



2. 9. 15. 1. Skin, albino female, mounted. Brinja, Oudh. 



Presented hy Mrs. Belleiv, 1902. 



3. 1. 10. 1. Skin, female. Near Klandapur, S. Kanara. 



Presented hy H. A. Latham, Esq., 1903. 



12. 10. 31. 11. Skull and antlers (fig. 13). Dehra Dun. 

 Length of one antler 383-, of other 36f inches. 



Bequeathed hy A. 0. Hume, Eseq., C.B., 1912. 



12. 10. 31. 12. Skull and antlers. Basim district, Berar. 

 Length of antlers 37^ inches, basal girth 4^, tip-to-tip 

 interval 24| inches. Same history. 



12. 10. 31. 13. Frontlet aud antlers. Bulundshahr, 

 Ganges Khadir, Eohilkhand ; collected by Mr. Hume. This 

 specimen stands No. 14 in Ward's 1910 list; length of 

 antlers 19^, girth 3|^, tip-to-tip 9 J inches. Sctmc history. 



B. -Cervus axis ceylonensis. 



Axis maculata ceylonensis, Fitzinger, Sitzher. Tx, Alt. Wiss. Wien, 



vol. Ixx, pt. 1, p. 269, lb74.* 

 Cervus (Eusa) axis zeylanicus, LydekJcer, Field, vol. iv, p. 947, 1905, 



Ward's Bccords of Big Game, eel. 7, p. 70, 1914. 



Typical (and only) locality Ceylon ; typified by H. Smith's 

 " Ceylon variety."* 



Antlers lighter and more slender than in typical race ; 

 ground-colour yellower and purer fawn ; spots smaller, and 

 absent on the uniformly brown forehead, which has no dark 

 horseshoe-mark. 



5. 5. 18. 1. Head, mounted. Ceylon ; collected by 

 Lieut.-Col. F. W. Begbie. Co-type of C. zeylanicus. 



Presented hy Walter Eeynolds, Escj^., 1905. 



5. 5. 19. 1. Body-skin. Ceylon. Co-type of C. zey- 

 lanicus. Presented hy Lieut.-Col. F. W. Beghie, 1905. 



* Cervus axis ceylonensis, H. Smith, in the present writer's 

 Deer of All Lands, p. 179, is a misquotation. 



