SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



slender, with the antlers very little developed : the second 

 near the summit ; ears round at tip ; pink coloured inside; 

 head short and ovine; gray; body brown; legs short; two 

 feet high at the shoulder ; species rare. 



C. Porcinus, Pen. 1 Porcine-deer. Cerf Cochon, Buff. 



Icon. Original drawing in the possession of F, Cuvier 

 to whose kindness we owe a copy. 



Inhabit India. 



788. 18. * C. Pumilio, Nob. (Dwarf Axis.) Fragment 

 of a frontal not above three inches broad across the horns; 

 pedicles low; horns whitish, about two inches high ; small 

 basal antler vertical, the beam flat and pointed, without 

 bifurcation. Specimen in Surgeons' College, London. 



Icon. Nobis from the above specimen. 

 Inhabit. Probably India. 



Sub-genus VII— Capreolus. Horns somewhat allied to 

 the former ; a small antler to the front high upon the beam ; 

 tJie superior turned to the rear, forms a fork, somewhat flat- 

 tened ; no canines, nor lachrymary sinus ; rudiment of tail. 



789. 19. * C Pygargus (the Ahu, or Tartarian Roe.) 

 Horns in the young male resembling the Common Roe ; in 

 the old about fourteen inches long ; very robust, rugous, 

 pearled, and denticulated ; first antler of the anterior part 

 of the beam, vertical, with processes at base ; the beam 

 spreading outwards ; the summit bilobed; posterior antler 

 horizontal, pointing to the opposite horn which is also bilo- 

 bed; colours brown, and brown-gray ; below yellowish ; large 

 white disk ; only a rudiment of tail ; size equal to a stag. 



Ahu, G. Gmel. Cervus Pygargus, Pallas and Auclor. 

 Chevreuil de Tartarie, Cuv. Tartarian Roe, Shatc. Di- 

 ka,}a.Kosa. of the Russians. Ahu, Saija. Tartar, Persian, 

 and Bucharian, 



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