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SIR V. BROOKE ON THE 



[Nov. 19, 



The semidomesticated life which the Fallow Deer has lead for so 

 many generations in the parks of Europe has given rise to many 

 permanent variations of colour. The natural colour of the species in a 

 wild condition in summer is a brilliant fawn with white spots irregu- 

 larly distributed over the upper parts of the sides and haunches, this 

 spotted region being bounded inferiorly on the sides and posteriorly 

 on the haunches by indefinite white lines. In winter the spots en- 

 tirely disappear. 



Fig. 9. 



Cervus (Dama) dama. 

 Fig. 10. 



Cervus (Damn) mesvpotainicits. 



33. Cervus mesopotamicus. 



1875. Cervus (Dama) mesopotamicus, Brooke, P. Z. S. 1875, 

 p, 265, pi. 38. figs. 1, 2. 



1876. 



-, Brooke, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 298, figs. 1-4. 



Hab. Luristan hills (Persia). 



