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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 



[part IV. 



Family 49.— TEAGULIDiE. (2 Genera, 6 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical 



Nearctic 



Paljearctic 



m EOTKOPICAL, ISEAKLrnU JT AL.IiAKUTIC CiTHIOPIAN URIENTAL AUSTRALIAN 



SUB-BEGION.S. Sub-regions. Sub-kegions. Sub-regions. Sub-regions. Sub-begions 



Ethiopian 



Oriental 



Australian 



1.2.3.4 



The Tragulidse are a group of small, hornless; deer-like animals, 

 with tusks in the upper jaw, and having some structural affinities 

 with the camels. The musk-deer was formerly classed in this 

 family, which it resembles externally ; but a minute examination 

 of its structure by M. Milne-Edwards, has shown it to be more 

 nearly allied to the true deer. The Chevrotains, or mouse-deer, 

 Tragulus (5 species), range over all India to the foot of the 

 Himalayas and Ceylon, and through Assam, Malacca, and Cam- 

 bodja, to Sumatra, Borneo, and Java (Plate VIII., vol. i. p. 

 337). Hymnosclius (1 species), is found in West Africa. 



Extinct Tragulidce. — A species of HyomoscJms is said to have 

 been found in the Miocene of the South of France, as weU as 

 three extinct genera, Dremotherium (also found in Greece), with 

 Lophiomeryx from the Upper Miocene, said to be alKed to Tra- 

 gulus ; and Ampliitragulus from the Lower Miocene, of more 

 remote affinities, and sometimes placed among the Deer. There 

 seems to be no doubt, however, that this family existed in Europe 

 in Miocene times ; and thus another case of discontinuous dis- 

 tribution is satisfactorily accounted for. 



Family 50.— CERVID^. (8 Genera, 52 Species.) 



The Cervidse, or deer tribe, are an extensive group of animals 

 squally adapted for inhabiting forests or open plains, the Arctic 



