972 



UNCtULATA 



190 ; pencil, 100 ; hind foot (with hoof), 4.35 ; (!;ii- from cruwii, 

 165 ; width of ear at middle, 90. For cranial measurements see 

 Table, p. 983. 



Specimens examined. — Sixty-seven, from the following localities: — 

 England : As enumerated below, 62. 

 Sweden : No exact locality, 1 (U.S.N.M.). 

 Germany : No exact locality, 1. 

 Locality unknown : Three (U.S.N.M.) 



6 St. Woburu, Bedford- Duke of Bedford (r). 9G. 9. 24. 1. 



shire, England. 



6 St. Tring Park, Hert- Hon. Walter Eoths- 98. 10. 18. 1. 



fordshire. child (p). 



6 st. England. Purchased (Lead- 



beater). 



6 St. England. Purchased (Baker). 46. 10. 23. 11. 



2 6 St. England. No history. 



3 pairs antlers. England. 693. a. b. d. 



antlers. NannanPark, J. E. Harting (p). 88.6.12.3. 



Merionethshire. 



46 antlers. New Forest. Mrs. Smyth (p). 50. 2. 5. 1-46. 



6 skull. England. Purchased. 50. 11. 13. 15. 



9 skull. England. 693. k. 



2 (5 2 ? skuUs. Lidth de Jeude Coll. 67. 4. 12. 234, 



235, 236, 241. 



6 St. Italy. Purchased (Lefebvrc). 43. 12. 29. 4. 



Genus CAPREOLUS Gray. 



1821. Capreohis Gray, London ]Med. Repos., xv, p. 307, April 1, 1821. 

 1837. Caprca Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1836, p. 135, June 27, 1837. 

 1857. Capreolus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 457. 



Type apecies. — Cerims capreolus Linnaeus. 



Geographical distribution. — Central and southern Europe from 

 Great Britain and southern Scandinavia eastward ; in Asia east 

 to the Pacific coast. 



Characters. — Telemetacarpalian deer of small size with narrow, 

 elongate hoofs, maxillary canines normally absent,* lower incisors 

 distinctly though not excessively difFerentiiated in size and form, 

 lachrymal vacuity large, the pit reduced to a shallow, inconspicuous 

 depression ; vomer low posteriorly, showing no tendency to divide 

 the posterior nares into two chambers ; antler small,! lirst appear- 

 ing about a year after birth, erect, terete, without brow tine, 

 the prongs normally three, the pedicle appearing to arise further 

 back than in Cervus, but its anterior base extending over orbital 

 cavity ; tail reduced to an inconspicuous papilla ; muzzle naked • 

 young with .spotted coat A'ery different from pelage of adult. 



* For account of their occasional occurrence see Kolliker, Wiirzburger 

 Naturwiss. Zeitschr., vi, p. 82, 1866. 



t Sometimes present in females (see Sherrcu, Field, London, cxiv, 

 p. 751, October 23, 1909). 



