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Les Cerfs (Cervus), F. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. lix. 513, 1829. 

 Cervidae seu Ceratoenta, /. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 61, 1828. 

 Les Cerfs, Lesson, Mamm. i. 259. 



Blainville proposed to divide the species thus : A. Horns 

 sessile, a. Horns divided. 1. Elans. 2. Rennes. 3. Daims. 



4. Cerfs. 5. Axis. 6. Chevreuils. b. Horns simple. 7- Da- 

 guets. B. Horns pedicelled. 8. Cervules. In the same note 

 he divides the species according to their geographic distribution. 

 Desm. Mamm. 449, 1822. 



M. Bravard divides the Fossil Deer of Puy du Dome into two 

 subgenera, thus: 1. Catoglochis, with the lower anterior snag 

 on the crown. 2. Anoalochis, with it above the crown. Fide 

 Lesson, Hist. Nat. Mamm. 1836, p. 259. 



Lesson, in the Manuel de Mammalogie, 1827, p. 355, thus 

 arranges the species of the genus Cervus : A. 1 . Elans. 

 B. 1. Rennes. 2. Daims. 3. Cerfs propr. dit. 4. Axis * ta- 

 chetees, ** sans taches. 5. Chevreuils * ancient continent, 

 ** nouveau continent. 6. Daguets. 7- Cervules. 



Colonel Hamilton Smith has adopted the section proposed by 

 De Blainville ; he regarded them as sections or subgenera, and 

 gave them the following Latin names : 1. Alces. 2. Rangifer. 

 3. Dama. 4. Elaphus. 5. Rusa. 6. Axis. 7- Capreolus. 8. 

 Mazama. 9. Subulo. 10. Stylocerus. Griffith, A. K. v. 1827; 

 translated Fischer, Syn. Mam. ii. 612, 1830; and Lesson, Compl. 

 Buffon Mamm. x. 259, 1836. 



Professor Sundevall proposed the following genera and sub- 

 genera: 1. Alces. 2. Rangifer. 3. Cervus. A. a. Cervus. 

 . Hippelaphi. y. Hyelaphus. d. Dama. B. a. Mazama. 

 /3. Blastoceri. y. Furciferes. S. Subulones. 4. Capreolus. 



5. Prox. (6. Moschus. 7. Tragulus.) 



Mr. Gray, in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society (1836, 

 67), proposed to arrange the species of Deer into three sections, 

 according to the position of certain tufts of hair on the hind-legs, 

 thus : 1. A tuft of hair below the middle of the outside of the 

 metatarsus. 2. Above the middle of the outside of the meta- 

 tarsus ; and 3. With a tuft of hair on the inside of the hock. 

 Dr. Sundevall in his Pecora has adopted these divisions. These 

 tufts have the advantage of being found in all ages and in both 

 sexes, so that they can be consulted when the horns are deficient. 



M. Pucheran (Diet. Univer. Hist. Nat. iii. 314, 1843) divides 

 the Deer as follows: A. With flat horns. 1. C. Dama (and 

 var. mauricus). B. With round horns, a. With more than two 

 andouilleres. 1. C. Virginianus. 2. C. Duvaucellii. 3. C. Wal- 

 lichii. 4. C. Elaphus. 5. C. Wapiti. 6. C. macrotis. 7. C. 

 macrurus. 8. C. occidentalis. 9. C. Elaphoides. b. With only 

 two andouilleres. 10. C. Hippelaphus. 11. C. Aristotelis. 12. 



