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usual oval black spot ; horns smooth, slender, nearly straight, elon- 
gate, the basal snag bent down on the forehead.” —Sundevall. 
Cervus (Hippelaphus) lepida, Sundev. Pecora, 57.—Rusa lepida, 
Gray, Knows. Menag. 63. 
Inhabits Java. Mus. Frankfort. Scarcely as large as a Roebuck. 
8. Axis, H. Smith; Hippelaphus ***, Sundev. 
Covered with moderately thick, polished hairs ; fulvous and beauti- 
fully white spotted at all seasons; the face is elongate, narrow, and 
the ears large, rather elongate and acute, with a rather elongate tail, 
and nearly equally long, slender legs ; the horns are placed on mode- 
rately long peduncles ; the skull is elongate, narrow, with an oblong, 
rather small, deep suborbital pit. 
1, Axis mMacuLatTa. The Axis or CHILTRA. 
Fulvous, with a black dorsal streak, edged with a series of white 
_ spots; sides with many white spots in an oblique curved line, and 
with a short white streak obliquely across the haunches. 
Young fawn, spotted exactly like the adult. 
Avis, Plin.?; Buffon, H. N. xi. t. 38, 39; Cuvier, Menag. Mus. t. ; 
Oss. Foss. iy. 38. t. 5. f. 24, 29.— Cervus Avis, Erxl.; Schreb. t. 250; 
Bennett, Gard. Zool. Soc. 253; Sundev. Pecora, 57.—Azis maculata, 
Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 178.—A. major, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. 
Soc. Bengal, x. 914.—A. minor, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 
x. 914.—A. medius, Hodgson, Icon. ned.—Cervus pseudaxis, Ger- 
vais, Voy. Bonite, 64. t. 12; Institute, 1841, 419; Sundev. Pecora, 
57.—C. Axis Ceylonensis, H. Smith. 
Var. Blackish. Cervus nudipalpebra, Ogilby, P. Z. 8. 1831, 136 ; 
Sundey. Pecora, 57.131. 
Inhabits India. 
The horns of this species vary greatly in size. Pennant describes 
two Deer under the names of 1. Greater Avis, Pennant, Syn. 52; 
Quad. 106= Cervus Axis y, Gmelin; 2. Middle-sized Axis, Pennant, 
Quad. 106= Cervus Axis 3, Gmelin, from the horns alone: these are 
probably only large-horned examples of the common species; 3. C. 
pseudaxis, which has been regarded as a species of Rusa, is only a 
small-horned variety. 
9. Hyrvapnuus, Sundev.; Axis, sp. H. Smith. 
Covered with moderately thick, polished hair ; fulvous, and spotted 
in the summer; with a rather elongated tail, and rather short legs, 
the front being rather the shortest; the face is short, broad, and 
arched in front; the ears short and rounded; the horns are placed 
on moderately long peduncles. 
1. HyeLapruus rorcinus. The Lucena Para or SHGORIAH. 
Brown or yellowish brown, with an indistinct darker dorsal streak, 
and with obscure whitish spots, but without any white streak on the 
sides or haunches; in the winter brown and spotless; front of face 
