116 catalogue of ungulates 



Incert^ Sedis. 



Cervus pseudaxis, Eydoux and Souleyet, Voyage de " La Bonite," 

 Zoology, voL i, p. 64, 1841-52 ; Broolr, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, 

 p. 909; Lydehher,ihid. 1897, p. 38, Deer of All Lands, p. 1, 1898. 



Axis pseudaxis. Gray, Cat, Ungulata Brit. Mus. p, 214, 1852 ; 

 Fitzinger, Sitzher. I: Ak. Wiss. Wien,\o\. lxix,pt. 1, p. 274, 1874. 



Sikelaphus pseudaxis, Hetcde, Mem. Hist. Nat. Emjo. Chinois, voL ii, 

 p. 146, 1894. 



" The animal which has been figured under the name of 

 Cervus pseudaxis," wrote Gray in 1852, " was obtained by 

 MM. Eydoux and Souleyet 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 the common axis, and the mule produce was fertile. 

 Some naturalists have given the Sooloo [SuluJ Islands, near 

 the Philippines, as the habitat of this specimen, but I do not 

 know on wdiat authority." Brooke observed that he 

 hesitated to identify it with " any species of the subgenus. 

 The type specimen is still preserved in the Museum 

 d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris ; but though I have often 

 carefully examined it, the absence of the skull, and the great 

 uncertainty of the locality where it was procured, render it 

 impossible to form a decided opinion." Sclater suggested 

 that it is really the same as C. taiouaoitis, in which case that 

 name would have to be superseded, pseudaxis being the 

 earliest of all. 



6. Subgenus CERVUS. 



Elaphus, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v, p. 307, 1827. 

 Harana, Hodgson, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. i, p. 154, 1838. 

 Pscudocervus, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. x, p. 904, 



1841. 

 Strongyloceros, Owen, Brit. Foss. Mamm. and Birds, p. 472, 1846. 

 Eucervus, Aclogue, Faune France, Mamm. p. 71, 1899; nee Gray. 



Antlers usually with at least five tines inclusive of a bez 

 (second), which may, however, be absent, and the lirow-tine 

 forming an obtuse angle with the beam ; bare portion of 

 muzzle (muffle) extending but slightly below nostrils ; hind- 

 pasterns as in Busa ; metatarsal gland hairy ; tail short ; 



