200 MAMMALIA. 



The Indian species of Cervus are confined to the vast primitive 

 forests in the plains. Tail very short; a large disc or pale space 

 round the tail, and no proper mane. Hodgson. 



Mr. Hodgson, in his figure of C. affinis, does not represent 

 the pale space round the tail, but it is evident by this observa- 

 tion that it is present. Probably C. Wallichii, C. Casperianus, 

 C. qffinis and C. Tibet anus, are only one species. 



Mr. Hodgson observes, " The horns of C. affinis, which I re- 

 ceived from the Morung or Eastern Taria, most probably were 

 brought from Thibet." Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1850, 466. 



The latter observation induces me to place all the above syno- 

 nyma to one species. 



6. CERVUS SIKA. The SIKA. 



Dark brown. Cheeks and throat rather paler. Rump brown, 

 without any pale spot. Tail pale, white beneath. Hair harsh. 

 Horns rather slender, with a basal and medial snag, and a sub- 

 apical internal one. 



Cervus Sika, Schlegel, Fauna Japon. 1. 17; Sundevall, Pecora, 131 . 



C. Sitza, Temm. Mus. Leyden. 



Cervus (Hippelaphi, no. 4), Sundevall, Pecora, 55. 



Hab. Japan. Mus. Leyden. 



OSTEOLOGY. Schlegel, Fauna Japon. 1. 17, skull and horns. 



2. DAMA, H. Smith. 



Horns round below, expanded above, smooth, and branched 

 on the hinder edge. Tail rather elongated. Crumen well-deve- 

 loped. Hoofs narrow, triangular, compressed, covered with thin, 

 rather adpressed hairs, reversed on the nape. The fur is spotted 

 in summer. The skull with a short, broad face, an oblong, rather 

 shallow, infraorbital pit, and short, broad nasals. 



Dama, Gray, Med. Repos. 1821, 4; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, not 



Bennett; J. Brooke, Cat. Mus. 62, 1828. 

 Cervus, Dama, H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. 182 ; Lesson, Mamm. 



i. 261; N. Tab. R. A. 169; Sundevall, Pecora, 58. 

 Daims, Blainville, Desm. Mam. ii. 448, 1822. 

 Platycerinidffi, J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 61, 1828. 

 Tarandus, sp., Ruppell, Verz. 183. 



1. DAMA VULGARIS. The FALLOW DEER. 



Fulvous. White spotted, a longitudinal line on the lower part 

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

 Var. Nearly black to nearly pure white. 



