458 



EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



three terminal tines. Record antler has a length on the outside curve 

 of 38J inches. 



In former times, according to Cabrera (1932, p. 311), this deer 

 was represented in Morocco and was probably found there at least 



FIG. 46. Barbary Stag (Cervus elephus barbarus) 



up to the period of Roman domination. In spite of a report as late 

 as 1920 (Carpentier, 1932, p. 21) of one having been seen at the post 

 of Tagouzatt, by a Captain Vizios and his companions, it seems very 

 unlikely that any exist there at the present time. Nor it is easy to 

 believe Lydekker's (1915) statement that it formerly occurred in 

 Senegambia. In 1848 Gervais recorded it from the forests in the 

 vicinity of Bone, Calle, and Tebessa, and here is where it still per- 

 sists. Lataste, in 1885, writing of the deer in this region, mentions 

 that it was common in Gervais's time and that there was a con- 



