200 _ MAMMALIA. 
The Indian species of Cervus are confined to the vast primitive 
forests in the plains. Tail very short; a large dise or pale space 
round the tail, and no proper mane.—Hodgson. 
Mr. Hodgson, in his figure of C. affinis, does not represent 
the pale space round the tail, but it is evident by this observa- . 
tion that it is present. Probably C. Wallichu, C. Casperianus, 
C. affinis and C. Tibetanus, are only one species. 
Mr. Hodgson observes, “‘ The horns of C. affinis, which I re- 
ceived from the Morung or Eastern Taria, most probably were 
brought from Thibet.”—Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1850, 466. 
The latter observation induces me to place all the above syno- 
nyma to one species. 
6. Cervus Sika. The SIKA. 
Dark brown. Cheeks and throat rather paler. Rump brown, 
without any pale spot. Tail pale, white beneath. Hair harsh. 
Horns rather slender, with a basal and medial snag, and a sub- 
apical internal one. 
Cervus Sika, Schlegel, Fauna Japon. t.17; Sundevall, Pecora, 131. 
C. Sitza, Temm. Mus. Leyden. 
Cervus (Hippelaphi, no. 4), Sundevall, Pecora, 55. 
_ Hab. Japan. Mus. Leyden. ’ 
OstTEoLocy. Schlegel, Fauna Japon, t. 17, skull and horns. 
2. Dama, H. Smith. 
Horns round below, expanded above, smooth, and branched 
on the hinder edge. Tail rather elongated. Crumen well-deve- 
loped. Hoofs narrow, triangular, compressed, covered with thin, 
rather adpressed hairs, reversed on the nape. The fur is spotted 
in summer. The skull with a short, broad face, an oblong, rather 
shallow, infraorbital pit, and short, broad nasals. 
_ Dama, Gray, Med. Repos. 1821, 4; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, not 
Bennett; J. Brooke, Cat. Mus. 62, 1828. 
Cervus, § Dama, H. Smith, Griffith A. K.v. 182; Lesson, Mamm. 
i. 261; N. Tab. R. A. 169; Sundevall, Pecora, 58. 
Daims, Blainville, Desm. Mam. ii. 448, 1822. 
Platycerinide, J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 61, 1828. 
Tarandus, sp., Riippell, Verz. 183. 
1. Dama vuLGARIS. The Fattow DEER. 
Fulvous. White spotted, a longitudinal line on the lower part 
of the side, and a line across the haunches, white. 
Var. Nearly black to nearly pure white. 
