CERVID.E 121 



99. 10. l:;. 1. Head, mounted. North Africa. 



Presented hy the Duke of Bedford, K.G., 1899. 



0. 12. 13. 1. Skiiij mounted, in winter coat. North 



Africa. Same donor, 1900. 



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B.— Cervus elaphus corsicanus. 



Cervus corsicanus, Erxlehen, Syst. Bcgn. Anim. vol. i, p. 807, 1777 ; 



Jolcaud, Bcv. Africaine, no. 287, p. 5, 1913. 

 Cervus elaphus corsicanus, Kerr, Linn.'s Anivi. Kingdom, p. 299, 



1793; LydekJcer, Deer of All Lauds, p. 74, 1898; Troucssayt, 



Faune Mamm. Europe, p. 229, 1910 ; Miller, Cat. Mamm. West. 



Europe, p. 969, 1912. 

 Cervus mediterraneus, Blainvillc, Journ. Phys. vol. xciv, p. 262, 1822. 

 Cervus elaphus minor, Wagner, Sclireher's Sdugtliiere, Siippl. vol. v, 



p. 354, 1855 ; Fitzlnger, Sitzher. h. Ah. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixix, 



pt. 1, p. 575, 1874. 



Typical locality Corsica, hut also found in Sardinia. 



Closely allied to the last, with which it apparently agrees 

 in the general absence of the bez-tine of the antlers, but 

 smaller, the size being approximately the same as in the 

 next race, but general colour darker than in that or any 

 other of the smaller continental forms, the general colour 

 being dark brown in summer and blackish in winter. 



No specimen in collection. 



^' C— Cervus elaphus hispanieus. 



Cervus elaphus hispanieus, Hilzlieimcr, Archiv fiir Bassen- und 

 Gesellscliafts-Biologie, 1909, p. 313 ; Miller, Cat. Mamm. West. 

 Europe, p. 969, 1912. 



(?) Cervus elaphus bolivari, Cabrera, Bol. Soc. Espaii. Hist. Nat. 

 vol. xi, p. 559, 1911, Cat. Met. Mam.. Miis. Madrid, p. 129, 1912. 



Typical locality Spain, probably the south-western 

 districts. 



Type in Stuttgart Museum ; type of holivari, which is 

 from El Pardo, Madrid, in Madrid Museum. 



Apparently smaller than in the under-mentioned Scots 

 race, with the colour more decidedly greyish, and the skull 

 narrower, more especially in the interorbital region and the 

 palate.* G. e. holivari is stated to be a larger form from 



* For cranial measurements of this and other races see Miller, 

 op. cit. p. 982. 



