1878.] CLASSIFICATION OF THE CERVID.E. 90 9 



The Society has within the last few years received livinsr soeci 

 men S oUPseudaxt, from Japan, which are intermediate n S s i ze P &c" 

 between P. sika and P. mantchuricus TIipsp w- ■ • • 



with excellent judgment, been labeded by the \ZZ7^l 

 mantchuncus minor. I think it probab/that, when a lar. r2 ies 

 of Pseudaxme Deer are brought together, it will be found imnos 



net SrXi^h int ° definitG S ? eCieS ' bUt that ifc -SI beZnd 

 necessaiy to regard them as one species of wide geographical ran^e 



24. CeRVUS DYBOWSKH ? 



1876. Cervus dybowskii, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1876 p 123 fio. 



^ * t7~ "f- Radde ' Reise im Siid - von 0st " Sib - B '«nd i. p. 286 

 nab. Upper Ussun (Mantchuria). 



It is highly probable that, when we know more of this form it will 

 be found inseparable from C. mantchuricus. ' M 



22. Cervus kopschi 1 



1873. Cervus kopschi, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1873 p 574 



Brf M^ 1 "'" 16114 ° f KienChang ' Kian S Se > China (***)■ Types, 

 Also a very doubtful modification. I had an oonortnniK, ,f 



23. Cervus taevanus. 



1862. Cervus taevanus, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 152 pi 16 

 7 > Swinh. loc cit. p. 362. 



rr z ,7 ' Sclat> Trans - Z S - vo] - vii- p. 345 pis 33 34 



Hab. Mountains of Formosa. P ' P ' 34 ' 



24. Cervus caspicus. 



1874. Cervus caspicus, Brooke, P. Z. S. 1874 p 42 

 Hab. Mountains S.W. of the Caspian. 



no Ztl7 7 ig, ' na - "° tice ° f this su PP° sed s P e 'H I have received 

 no further information respecting; it The antW, »« ;„ receiv ea 



collection; and I am still Lable^o JS*^ "&%%£; 

 Although I have placed the species provisionally amo^stThe Pseud 

 axine Deer, I ara very far from satisfied that this is its Propef Tora" 

 tion I am C hi e fl y influenced in doin<* so bv an J£? T L 

 lately received from Mr. Robertson (B B M %1 r , I haTC 

 fi-om the Karun, which is of dSded S^^^^^l 



th nLar" • "fi t0 the Same SpedeS - Jt is t0 be hoped that, thCh 

 It Z l Sahl l eXertl0nS of Mr - Robertson, we may ere lonJ hive 

 ^advantage of seeing this species living in the Society's Mena 



SoJlJ 3 ?^ v tated \ n r „ eferrin S the Cervus pseudazis of Eydoux and 



