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the true Cervi, but which, as has been recently pointed 

 out by Mr. Lydekker, possesses essentially distinctive 

 characters in its remarkable horns, large and spreading 

 hoofs, and long tail, besides other peculiarities. Mr. 

 Lydekker is of opinion that the genus "has nothing to 

 do with any of the living Old World Deer except the 

 Roes, whilst its alliance with the American Deer (Cariacus) 

 seems to be close." If such be the case its patria is 

 indeed remarkable, for, though only yet certainly known 

 from captive specimens obtained in the Imperial Park, 

 near Pekin, it is said to have been originally brought from 

 Kashgaria, and must therefore be a Paleearctic form. 



The second section of the sub-family Cervinte contains 

 the American Deer of which two genera are usually 

 recognized — Cariacus 1 and Pudua — containing altogether 

 at least twenty or twenty-one species, which are distributed 

 throughout the Nearctic and Neotropical Regions. As 

 all naturalists agree they form a very natural group, 

 connected by many common characters which separate 

 them from all the existing Deer of the Old World, 

 although the fossil genus Anoglochis, formerly found in 

 Western Europe, seems to have been a closely allied form. 

 As in the case of Cervus the sub- divisions of Cariacus 

 have special areas of distribution, Dorcehupkus being the 

 most northern form, whilst Blastocerus, Xenelaphus, and 

 Subido take its place in South America. The small Deer 



1 We regret not to be able to follow Mr. Lydekker in using the generic 

 term Mazama for this group. Mazama is a term which has already been 

 most carefully studied and condemned by the late Professor Baird 

 ("North American Mammals," p. 665) to be rejected for vagueness. Its 

 author, Rafinesque, seems to have been an erratic person whose writings 

 should be held to be of no authority whatever, and it is very doubtful 

 whether any of his names, which were mainly based on the phantoms of 

 his own imagination, should be employed in Science. 



