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fully white spotted at all seasons ; the face is elongate, narrow, and 

 the ears large, rather elongate and acute, with a rather elongate tail, 

 and nearly equally long, slender legs ; the horns are placed on mode- 

 rately long peduncles ; the skull is elongate, narrow, with an oblong, 

 rather small, deep suborbital pit. 



1. Axis maculata. The Axis or Chiltra. 



Fulvous, with a black dorsal streak, edged with a series of white 

 spots ; sides with many white spots in an oblique curved line, and 

 with a short white streak obliquely across the haunches. 



Young fawn, spotted exactly like the adult. 



Axis, Plin.?; Buffon, H. N. xi. t. 38, 39 ; Cuvier, Menag. Mus. t. ; 

 Oss. Foss. iv. 38. t. 5. f. 24, 29.— Cervus Axis, End.; Schreb. t. 250; 

 Bennett, Gard. Zool. Soc. 253 ; Sundev. Pecora, 57. — Axis maculata, 

 Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 178. — A. major, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. 

 Soc. Bengal, x. 914. — A. minor, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 x. 914. — A. medius, Hodgson, Icon. ined. — Cervus pseudaxis, Ger- 

 vais, Voy. Bonite, 64. t. 12; Institute, 1841, 419; Sundev. Pecora, 

 57. — C. Axis Cey/onensis, H. Smith. 



Far. Blackish. Cervus nudipalpebra, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1831, 136 ; 

 Sundev. Pecora, 57. 131. 



Inhabits India. 



The horns of this species vary greatly in size. Pennant describes 

 two Deer under the names of 1 . Greater Axis, Pennant, Syn. 52 ; 

 Quad. 106= Cervus Axis y, Gmelin ; 2. Middle-sized Axis, Pennant, 

 Quad. 106 = Cervus Axis /3, Gmelin, from the horns alone : these are 

 probably only large-horned examples of the common species ; 3. C. 

 pseudaxis, which has been regarded as a species of Rusa, is only a 

 small-horned variety. 



9. Hyelaphus, Sundev. ; Axis, sp. H. Smith. 

 Covered with moderately thick, polished hair ; fulvous, and spotted 

 in the summer ; with a rather elongated tail, and rather short legs, 

 the front being rather the shortest ; the face is short, broad, and 

 arched in front ; the ears short and rounded ; the horns are placed 

 on moderately long peduncles. 



1. Hyelaphus porcinus. The Lugna Para or Shgoriah. 



Brown or yellowish brown, with an indistinct darker dorsal streak, 

 and with obscure whitish spots, but without any white streak on the 

 sides or haunches ; in the winter brown and spotless ; front of face 

 and legs darker ; line down the front and the inside of the thighs 

 white. 



Porcine Beer, Pennant, Syn. 42. t. 8. f. 2. — Cerf Cochon, BufFon, 

 Supp.iii.l22.t.l8(insummer). — Cervus porcinus, Zimmerm.; Schreb. 

 t. 251, F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithog. t. . — Hyelaphus porcinus, Sun- 

 dev. Pecora, 58; Gray, Knows. Menag. 64. t. 42; Cat. Ost. B. M. 67. 

 — Axis porcinus, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, x. 914 ; Gray, 

 Cat. Hodgson's Coll. B. M. 33. — Cervus niger, Hamilton, Icon, ined.; 

 Blainv. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, 76 ; Fischer, Syn. 454 ; Sundev. Pe- 

 cora, 60. 132. 



Inhabits India. 



