462 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS [voL, 48 
gether the question of a distinctly Scoto-Norwegian dispersal of 
the fauna has not been taken up for discussion until a year ago 
(1906) and then only with regard to the origin of the red deer in 
Norway. 
II. THe Rep DEER 
In calling attention to the case of the red deer which is confined 
to western Norway from Stavanger to Namsos (59°-65° north 
latitude) while entirely absent from the interior or eastern Norway, 
‘I indicated that it “ doubtless forms a small-antlered race, or sub- 
species, of Cervus elaphus,” but I did not name it, as our museum 
then did not possess a specimen of this form. My friend, Pro- 
fessor Einar Lonnberg has since confirmed its distinctness and 
called it Cervus elaphus atlanticus (Ark. Zool., 111, No. 9, 1906, 
fiegel. . 
In this article (On the Geographic races of red deer in Scandi- 
navia) Lonnberg does not give a separate diagnosis of this form, 
but from the text the following distinctions may be gathered: 
Swedish Deer (C. elaphus typ.). 
Much larger. 
“Well-developed mane” (p. 3). 
Summer coat “dark reddish brown, 
almost chestnut, and the legs very 
dark sooty or blackish brown” (p. 3). 
Caudal disk “less pronounced... 
sometimes not much lighter than the 
flanks and although it is bordered by 
a darker shade towards the thighs 
this dark color never takes the shape 
of a black stripe” (p. 3)- 
As a tule “larger skulls” (p. 3). 
Nasals “transversely curved,” 
“well visible, especially when the 
skull is seen from the side” (p. 5). 
Nasals “as a rule decidedly long- 
er,’ much less expanded and more 
convex posteriorly, the “combined 
greatest width of both nasals con- 
tained about 3 times (one specimen 
only 27% times) in the length” (p. 5). 
Height of nose at the posterior end 
of the premaxillaries “exceeds 50 
fim Gp). 
Norwegian Deer (C. atlanticus). 
“Much smaller size” (p. 3). 
No well-developed mane. 
Summer coat “yellowish brown 
with tinge of grey and the legs much 
paler, slaty brownish grey” (p. 3). 
Caudal disk “lighter, somewhat 
reddish yellow and bordered by 
blackish” (p. 3). 
As a rule shorter skulls. 
Nasals “much flatter so that they 
are when the skull is viewed from 
from the side, hardly, or not at all 
visible in front above the ends of the 
premaxillaries ” (p. 5). 
Nasals as a rule decidedly shorter 
“much more expanded and less con- 
vex posteriorly” (p. 5); “width of 
both nasals ... less than 2%4 times 
in their length” (in hinds never 
more than 234 times) (p. 6). 
Height of nose “at the hind end of 
the premaxillaries does not attain 50 
mm., but usually is less than 45” 
(p77). 
