GERVID^ 229 



Alee, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 72, vol. \ , 

 p. 303, 1827; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Sot: 1910, p. 958; Miller, 

 Proc. Boston Soc. vol. xxviii, p. 40, 1897 ; nee Blumenbach,* 

 1799. 



Alcelaphus, Glogcr, Handbuch Naturgcschichtr, p. 143, 1841 ; nee 

 Blainville, 1816. 



Paralces, Allen, Bull. Amcr. Mns. Nat. Hist. vol. xvi, p. 160, 1902. 



The geographical rauge includes the afforested northern 

 portions of both eastern and western hemispheres, extending 

 in the Old World westwards to Norw^ay, soiitli wards to 

 Eastern Germany, and eastwards to Central Kussia and Easteru 

 Siberia. 



Lateral metacarpals as in Mazama ; vomer not dividing 

 aperture of posterior nostrils ; hind-pasterns with a relatively 

 small glandular invagination, situated as in Capreolus ; antlers 

 (fig. 36) present only in males (as in all the preceding genera), 

 situated low down on the skull, from which they arise at 

 right-angles to the median longitudinal line, extending at 

 first directly outwards in the plane of the forehead, and, in 

 their fullest development, expanding into a broad palmation 

 margined with snags, in structure essentially dichotomous, 

 with the upper main branch mucli superior in size to the 

 lower ; muzzle broad, long, and overhanging, with a very 

 small triangular naked area between the lower angles of the 

 nostrils ; head and limbs long ; neck and body short ; tail 

 very short ; main hoofs narrow, long, and pointed, lateral 

 hoofs large ; usually small metatarsal glands situated high 

 up on the shanks ; tarsal glands and face-glands present ; 

 coat uniformly coloured at all ages and all seasons, long 

 and coarse ; males provided with a pear-shaped pendulous 

 expansion of skin covered with long hairs on the throat. 

 In the skull (fig. oi)) the nasals very short, and the nasal 

 aperture consequently of great extent; gland-pits and 

 vacuities between the bones of the face moderate. Upper 

 molar teeth broad, low-crowned and approximating to those 

 of giraffes ; upper canines wanting or rudimentary. Size 

 very large, and build heavy. 



The lower front teeth are shown in fig. 1, p. 2. 



* Handbuch Naturgesch. ed. G, p. 697; typified by the extmct 

 Cerviis megaceros or Megaceros hibcrnicns. 



