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Skull and Antlers of Japanese Sika. 



SIKA DEER (Cervus [Pseudaxis] sica). 



The Japanese deer is the typical representative of a small group of 

 deer in which the antlers are shorter and simpler than is usually the 

 case in the red deer group, and have generally four tines, including a 

 trez, but lacking a bez. The coat is spotted, at least in summer, and 

 there is a black-bordered white area in the region of the tail, which is 

 relatively long. They constitute the sub-genus Pseudaxis. In the 

 typical species the tail is white at the tip, but black above for at 

 least some part of its length; and the gland on the hind cannon-bone 

 is covered with white hairs. The coat is chestnut-red with numerous 

 white spots in summer, and browner, with no (or only indistinct traces 

 of) spots in winter. These deer are distributed over Northern China, 

 Manchuria, and Japan, and are represented by two closely allied races 

 differing chiefly in size. In the Japanese deer (C. sica typicus\ which 

 inhabits Japan and Northern China, the height at the shoulder varies 



