1878.] CLASSIFICATION OF THE CERVID.E. 91/ 



Upper margin of the internarial rhinarium running straight across 

 from the upper angle of the nostrils. No infranarial rhinarium. 

 Tail very short. In the female the clitoris is surrounded by a long 

 tuft of hair. Interdigital glands in the fore feet rudimentary, in the 

 hind feet deep, opening by a narrow orifice into a capacious round 

 pouch. Stature small. Young spotted. 



Distribution. Central aDd Western Palsearctic region. 



Fig. 12. 



Capreolus caprcea. 



1. CAPREOLUS CAPR.EA. 



1843. Capreolus caprcea, Gray, Cat. Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 176. 



1844. Capreolus europaus, Sund. Pec, Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 

 1844, p. 184. 



Range. Scotland, Southern Sweden, France, Germany, Austria, 

 Hungary, Spain, Tuscany, Greece, Turkey, Northern Palestine, 

 Elburz Mountains (South of Caspian) . 



I have received a specimen from the last-mentioned locality which 

 differs in no respect from the European specimens. 



2. Capreolus pygargus. 



1771. Cervus pygargus, Pall. Reise Russ. Reichs, vol. i. p. 97, 

 Append, p. 453. 



1831. Cervus capreolus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. vol. i. p. 219. 



1853. , Midd. Sib. Reis. Wirb. Band ii. Th. 2, p. 118. 



1859. , Schrenck, Reis. u. Forsch. Amurlande, Baud i. 



p. 163. 



1862. , Radde, Reise Slid. v. Ost-Sib. Band i. p. 277. 



Range. Suitable localities in the mountains forming the watershed 

 between the Russian and Chinese empires, in Central Asia ; Chingan 

 Mountains (Mantchuria). 



Most authors have considered C. pygargus to be a large variety of 

 the common Roe. There are, however, in the British Museum two 

 specimens purchased from Brandt and said to be from Siberia, 

 which, in their very much larger size, larger anal disk, and much 

 more hairy ears, differ widely from all specimens of the common 

 species. Specimens of Roe from Mantchuria in the British and 

 Paris Museums are very much smaller than the above-mentioned 



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