.120 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



b. Size larger, bez-tine usually present. 

 b'. Size larger, colour redder, skull wider. 

 h". Rump-patch not markedly lighter than 



flanks or black-bordered in front C. c. da/phus. 



c". Rump -patch markedly lighter than 



flanks, usually black-bordered in front .. C. e. liii^iyehtitluin. 

 c . Size smaller, rump-patch black-bordered 

 in front. 



c". Colour paler and greyer ( '. c. atlanticus. 



d". Colour darker and less grey C. c. ncoticns. 



B . Size large, under-parts darker C c. maral. 



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A.— Cervus elaphus barbarus. 



Cervus barbarus, Bennett, List Anlm. Gardens Zool. Soc. p. 31, 1887 ; 

 Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 227, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mas. 

 p. 197, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mas. p. 68, 1872, Hand-List 

 Ruminants Brit. Mas. p. 140, 1873; Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm. 

 vol. ii, p. 261, 1855 ; Sclatcr, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vii, p. 344, 

 1871 ; Fitzimjer, Sit;:ber. h. Ali. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixix, pt. 1, 

 p. 577, 1874; Joleaud, Rev. Africainc, no, 287, p. 5, 1913. 



Cervus corsiniacus, Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 3, vol. x, p. 206, 

 1848. • 



Cervus elaphus, Loclie, Cat. Mamm. Algerie, p, 26, 1858, Rev. Marit. 

 et Coloniale, 1860, p. 151, Explor. Sci. Algerie, Mamm. p. 34, 

 1887 ; Blanchard, Tunisic au XX"'" Siecle, Zool. p. 136, 1904. 



Cervus corsicanus, Latastc, Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, vol. xxxix, 

 p. 286, 1885 ; nee Erxleben. 



Cervus elaphus barbarus, Latastc, Exjdor. Sci. Tunisic, Mamm. 

 p. 34, 1887 ; Lydekkcr, Deer of All Lands, p. 65, 1898, Game 

 Animals of Africa, p. 385, 1908 ; Drewitt, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, 

 vol. ii, p. 130 ; Trouessart, Cans. Sci. Soc. Zool. France, vol. i, 

 p. 405, 1905 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 31, 1910, 

 ed. 7, p. 31, 1914. 



Typical locality North Africa ; now found in certain 

 parts of Algeria, Tunisia, and Senegambia, but apparently 

 very scarce. 



Size considerably smaller than in typical race ; bez-tine 

 of antlers at least generally wanting ; general colour dark 

 brown, with a greyish brown dorsal stripe and irregular 

 whitish spots on flanks and in some cases on back ; rump- 

 patch much lighter than back, without dark anterior border, 

 and including tail. Maximum antler-length 38| inches. 



53. 3. 7. 37. Skeleton, female. North Africa. 



Purchased (Zoological Society/), 1853. 



63. 5. 13. 3-5. Three shed antlers. Tunisia. 



rnrcJuiscd (Zoolof/leal Society), 1863. 



