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20. *Cervus ELAPHus, Linn. Siiyiin. 
Common in the thickly wooded districts of the north-west. Many 
stags’ heads seen at Ismid near Constantinople appeared all to 
belong to the usual type of C. elaphus. It also occurs on the southern 
side of the Cilician Taurus, and appears to be more numerous on the 
Kermesdagh and in the neighbourhood of Marasch. Herr Kotschy 
alludes to ‘‘the yet unknown Stag of the wide Pyramus woods,” 
near which river Danford has been since informed that they are to be 
met with. Some horns seen at Kaisariyeh, and a pair in our posses- 
sion alleged to come from the latter districts, are of great size com- 
pared with those of animals killed in the north. 
21. *Cervus DAMA, Lana. Yamoorcha. 
Common on the plains of the south coast and in the lower ele- 
vations of the mountains bordering upon them. At Adalia Dan- 
ford met with the Fallow Deer, among the bushy scrub, within a 
mile of the town. According to Ainsworth, they are especially 
common on the Kara Bel and Chamkti Bel Mountains. 
22. *Cervus cApreouus, Linn. Karadja. 
Generally distributed in the wooded districts, but more common in 
the north than in the south. Its existence in the Lebanon has 
recently been established by Canon Tristram and Professor Newton’. 
The horns seem to correspond with the European form; but the skin 
appears to differ in the length and texture of the hair, that of a speci- 
men killed in the Cilician Taurus being shorter and finer. 
23. Gaze LLa porcas (Linn.). Jairan. 
Not uncommon on the plain of Tchukur-ova and about Tarsus 
and Adana. Ainsworth says that this species is replaced on the 
Tigris, near Kit Aamarah, by G. subgutturosa. 
24. *Capra £GaGRus, Gmel. Kayeeh. 
Common throughout the Taurus and Armenia, but not found 
in the west or north of the country, or on the isolated Mount 
Argeeus, near Ceesarea. Its vertical range extends from the moun- 
tain-summits to (in some districts) the sea-level. For fuller notes 
on this species as observed by Danford in Asia Minor see P. Z. S. 
1875, pp. 458-468. 
25. *Ovis GME tnt, Blyth. Kotch, Yaban koyun (wild sheep). 
Common in many districts of the interior, particularly about the 
salt lakes in the Vilayet of Konia. It is also found in the ele- 
vated plain of Palanga, above Marasch, and thence ranges east and 
north to Kurdestan and Armenia. It is somewhat remarkable that 
Danford could find no trace of this animal either in the country to 
the north of the Ala Dagh or on the wide-reaching grassy plateau 
between Kaisariyeh and the Black Sea. 
It seems hardly ever to occur on the southern slopes of the 
1 P.Z.8. 1876, pp. 420, 701. 
