78 Mr. W. F. G. Blackler on Two new 
X.—On Two new Subspecies of Roedeer. 
By W. F. Grirrirr BuAckier, M.A., F.Z.S. 
WHILE working at a number of specimens of roedeer obtained 
in 1906 in North-eastern Asia Minor, and comparing them 
with all the other specimens in the possession of the British 
Museum, I have been led to the conclusion that they present 
sufficient characteristics to merit being classed as a separate 
geographical race, and therefore propose giving them a new 
name. At the same time I have been able to examine 
closely a number of roedeer from France which were obtained 
by the Museum subsequent to the time when Mr. Miller 
worked on the group in preparing his ‘ Catalogue of the 
Mammals of Western Europe,’ although some were provi- 
sionally included under Capreolus capreolus capreolus at the 
last moment before going to press. ‘These French roedeer 
appear so distinct in their general colouring from any of the 
other described forms, the difference being constant in all five 
individuals examined, that it seems quite justifiable to class 
them also as a new form. 
Capreolus capreolus armenius, subsp. n. 
Colour.—In winter pelage considerably darker and more 
smoky than either Capreolus c. capreolus or C. ¢. transyl- 
vanicus, showing hardiy any trace of yellow tinge as in the 
former, the general colour approaching the sepia of Ridgway. 
The colouring of the back is not unlike that of C. c. thotti 
from Scotland, but that animal is readily distinguished from 
this by the fact of the head and neck being darker than the 
body. The middle part of the back is much darker than the 
flanks, this darker area commencing just behind the ears and 
extending backwards along the middle dorsal region to the 
tail, with a tendency to broaden out on the rump. Face and 
ears similar to colour of flanks, but slightly greyer. Inner 
side of ears almost white, the hairs on the anterior edge being 
quite white. Throat-patch and neck-patch well defined, the 
hairs being tipped with white. Colouring of underside 
almost as dark as in C. c. thott’, but bases of hairs much 
lighter. Hairs all over the body generally much shorter 
than in C. c. capreolus, measuring only about 25 mm. in 
length on the back at the shoulder, and their basal colour is 
the same, but the cream-buff annulations are shorter, rarely 
