182 MAMMALIA. 
Young male. Central Africa. Presented by Capt. Clapperton, 
R.N., and Col. Denham. 
Male (18 feet high). S. Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 
- Male. N. Africa. From the Zoological Society’s Collection. 
OstreoLocy. Alton, Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xii. 332. t. 36; Owen, 
Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. t.40; Riippell, Zool. Atlas, t.9; Geoff. 
Ann. Sci. Nat. xi. 210; Salze, Mem. Mus. xiv. 68; Owen, 
Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. t. 40. 
Skull of male. South Africa. Presented by Dr. Burchell. 
Skull of male. Presented by Dr. Burchell. 
*Skeleton. N. Africa. From the Zoological Society’s Col- | 
ection. 
Icon. 
Cervus camelopardalis, Linn.—G. Forster, Icon. ined. B. M. 
t. 15, from a painting of Baron de Flettenberg, improved from a 
dry head ; t. 16, a head. 
“Mr. Wahlenberg has seen the dark and light coloured varie- 
ties mixed together in the same herd in tropical parts of Africa. 
The males are generally dark and the females pale, but this is 
not always the case. He has sent to Stockholm the skin of a 
female from Caffreland, which is as pale as the specimens from 
Sennaar.”’—Sundevall in a Letter, 1850. 
Subfamily II. Horns deciduous, covered when young with a 
deciduous hairy skin, or entirely wanting. 
Tribe 3. CERVINA. 
Cutting-teeth none in upper jaws. Horns deciduous, often 
wanting in the females. Tarsus hairy on the hinder side. False 
hoofs distinct. 
Cervus, Linn.; Cuv. T. E. 1798. 
Cervidee, Gray, Lond. Med. Rep. xv. 307; Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. 
Soc. Beng. 1850. 
Cervina, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825; Cat. Mamm. B. M. xxvii. 
Plenicornia a, Latr. Fam. Nat. 63, 1825. 
Cervide, H. Smith, Griff. A. K.v. 182; Selys Longchamps, 1842. 
Cervina, Selys Longchamps, 1842 ; Wiegm. ; Cabais in R. Schom- 
burgk, Reisen in British Guiana, i ul. 784. 
Elaphiens, Pomet. 1. c. 184. 
Les Chevrotains et Les Cerfs, F. Cuv. 1829. 
Ruminantia B. Pygnocerate, part., Bronn, Index Paleon. ii. 709. 
Capreoli, Illiger, Prod. 104, 1811; Riippell, Verz. Senck. Sammi. 
183, 1845. 
