120 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



b. Size larger, bez-tine usually present. 

 b'. Size larger, cqlour redder, skull wider. 

 b". Eump-patch not markedly lighter than 



flanks or black-bordered in front C. e. elaphus. 



c". Eump-patch markedly lighter than 



flanks, usually black-bordered in front .. C.e. hippelaphus. 

 c'. Size smaller, rump-patch black-bordered 

 in front. 



c". Colour paler and greyer C. e. atlanticus. 



d". Colour darker and less grey C. c. scoticus. 



B . Size large, under-parts darker C. c. maral. 



A. Cervus elaphus barbarus. 



Cervus barbarus, Bennett, List Anim. Gardens Zool. Soc. p. 31, 1837 ; 

 Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 227, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. 

 p. 197, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 68, 1872, Hand-List 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 140, 1873 ; Gervais, Hist. Nat. Matnm. 

 vol. ii, p. 261, 1855 ; Sclater, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vii, p. 344, 

 1871; Fitzinger, Sitzber. If. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixix, pt. 1, 

 p. 577, 1874 ; Joleaud, Rev. Africaine, no. 287, p. 5, 1913. 



Cervus corsiniacus, Gcrvais, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 3, vol. x, p. 206, 

 1848. 



Cervus elaphus, Loche, Cat. Mamm. Algerie, p. 26, 1858, Rev. Marit. 

 et Coloniale, 1860, p. 151, Explor. Sci. Algerie, Mamm. p. 34, 

 1887 ; Blanchard, Tunisie au XX Siecle, Zool. p. 136, 1904. 



Cervus corsicanus, Lataste, Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, vol. xxxix, 

 p. 286, 1885 ; nee Erxleben. 



Cervus elaphus barbarus, Lataste, Explor. Sci. Tunisie, Mamm. 

 p. 34, 1887; Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, p. 65, 1898, Game 

 Animals of Africa, p. 385, 1908 ; Drewitt, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, 

 vol. ii, p. 130; Trouessart, Caus. Sci. Soc. Zool. France, vol. i, 

 p. 405, 1905 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 31, 1910, 

 ed. 7, p. 31, 1914. 



Typical locality North Africa ; now found in certain 

 parts of Algeria, Tunisia, and Senegambia, but apparently 

 very scarce. 



Size considerably smaller than in typical race ; bez-tine 

 of antlers at least generally wanting; general colour dark 

 brown, with a greyish brown dorsal stripe and irregular 

 whitish spots on flanks and in some cases on back ; rump- 

 patch much lighter than back, without dark anterior border, 

 and including tail. Maximum antler-length 38| inches. 



53. 3. 7. 37. Skeleton, female. North Africa. 



Purchased (Zoological Society), 1853. 



63. 5. 13. 3-5. Three shed antlers. Tunisia. 



Purchased (Zoological Society), 1863. 



