TRAGULIDE. 515 
Regarding the nomenclature of this species there seems to be some 
uncertainty. Jerdon himself was doubtful whether the sow was not 
C. Wallichit, and the Kashmir stag C. Cashmirianus. He says: “It is a 
point reserved for future travellers and sportsmen to ascertain the limits 
of C. Wallichit east and C. affinis west, for, as Dr. Sclater remarks, it 
would be contrary to all analogy to find two species of the same type 
inhabiting one district.” 
Sir Victor Brooke writes: ‘Should Cervus Wadllichit (Cuvier) prove 
to be specifically identical with Cervus affinis (Hodgson), the former 
name, having priority, must stand. 
Si1zE.—Length, about 8 feet ; height at shoulders, 44 to 5 feet. Horns 
quoted by Jerdon 54 inches round curve, 47 inches in divergence be- 
tween the two outer snags. Longest basal tine, 12 inches; the medians, 
8 inches. 
An allied stag, Cervus mara/, is found in Circassia and Persia: Sir 
Victor Brooke mentions a pair kept for some years in one of his parks, 
which never interbred with the red deer, and kept apart from them. 
“The old stag mara/, though considerably larger in size, lived in great 
- fear of the red deer stag.” Another very fine species, Cervus 
Lustephanus, was discovered by Mr. W. Blanford inhabiting the Thian 
Shan mountains. As yet it is only known from its antlers, which are of 
great size, and in their flattened crowns closely resemble Wapiti horns. 
TRAGULIDA—THE CHEVROTIANS OR DEERLETS. 
Animals of small size and delicate graceful form, which are separated 
from the deer and oxen by certain peculiarities which approximate 
them to the swine in their feet. They are, however, ruminants, having 
the complex stomach, composed of paunch, honeycomb-bag and reed, 
the manyplies being almost rudimentary; but in the true ruminants 
the two centre metacarpals are fused into a single bone, whilst the 
outer ones are rudimentary. In the pig all the metacarpal bones 
are distinct, and the African Tragulus closely resemblesit. The Asiatic 
ones have the two centre bones fused, but the inner and outer ones are 
entire and distinct as in the swine. ‘The legs are, however, remarkably 
delicate, and so slight as to be not much thicker than an ordinary lead 
pencil. The males have pendant tusks, like those of the musk and 
rib-faced deer. 
GENUS TRAGULUS. 
Has the hinder part of metatarsus bald and callous. 
