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triangular, compressed ; they are covered with thin, rather adpressed 

 hairs, and have the hair of the nape reversed ; the fur is spotted in 

 summer ; the skull with a short broad face, an oblong, rather shallow, 

 infraorbital pit ; intermaxillary broad, reaching to the short broad 

 nasals. 



1. Dama vulgaris. The Fallow Deer. 



Fulvous ; white spotted, with the longitudinal streak on the lower 

 part of the side, and the line across the haunches white. 



Far. From nearly black to nearly pure white. 



Platyceros, Plini. — Cervus platyceros, Rah Quad. 85. — Cervus 

 dama, Linn. — Dama vulgaris, Gesner, Quad. 335. f. ; Gray, Cat. 

 Osteol. Sp. B. M. 65 ; Knows. Menag. 60. — Falloio Deer and Buck, 

 Pennant. — Daim et Daime, Buifon. — Daimfauve, F.Cuvier. — Cervus 

 coronatus, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. t. . f. 4, from monstrous horns. 



Far. Blackish. 



Cervus mauricus, F. Cuv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816. — C. Dama maura, 

 Fischer. — Daime noire, F. Cuv. Mam. Lith. 



Inhabits Persia. Domesticated in Europe. 



This species is represented in the sculptures from Nineveh. 



d. The Rusine Deer or Samboos have a large moist muffle, 

 which is as high as broad, and extends to the edge of the upper lip ; 

 hind-leg with a large tuft of hair rather above the middle of the meta- 

 tarsus, and with a pencil of hair on the inner side of the hock ; a 

 moderate tail, broad, short ears, and the fur consisting of hard, rather 

 shining, thick, depressed hair ; they have no white mark on the rump. 

 The horns are cylindrical, generally rather longly peduncled, with a 

 distinct anterior basal branch or snag close on the burr or crown, and 

 are forked, and sometimes reforked, at the tip ; they have no medial 

 snag. The skulls have a large, very deep, suborbital pit. They are 

 confined to South-Eastern Asia and its islands. 



* In some the upper part of the horns is variously branched. 



5. Panolia, Gray. 

 The horns round, curved backwards and outwards, with a large 

 anterior basal snag close on the burr ; the upper part bent in, forked, 

 becoming rather expanded and branched on the inner or hinder edge ; 

 the fur formed of rather rigid, flattened hair ; muffle large ; skull 

 with a narrow face, a large, oblong, very deep suborbital pit, and the 

 nasals short, broad, and dilated behind ; the frontal snag of the horns 

 often has a tubercle or branch at the base. 



1. Panolia Eedii. The Sungnai. 



Panolia Eedii, Gray, Cat. Hodgson's Coll. B. M. 34 ; Knowsley 

 Menag. 61. — P. acuticornis, Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 180. — P. platy- 

 ceros, Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 180 (adult horn).— Cervus lyratus, 

 Schinz, Syn. ii. 395. — ICervus Smitliii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, 

 45. — Cervus Eedii, Calcutta Journ. N. H. ii. 413. t. 12. — Cervus 

 (Rusa) frontalis, M'Clelland, Calcutta Journ. N. H. i. t. 12. f. 1, 

 ii. 539, -hi. t. 13; Suudevall, Peeora, 132. 



Inhabits India. 



