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slender, converging pedicles. Ascending rami of premaxille shorter 
than nasals. No supraorbital ridges or frontal glands. Upper 
canines of male long, but not everted. A distinct frontal tuft 
of hair. Other characters as in Cervulus. 
This genus (which has also received the name of Lophotragus) is 
represented by a small Deer (Fig. 127) from China of about the 
same size as the Indian Muntjac. The male has minute simple 
antlers and very large canine teeth. There are no supraorbital 
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Fig. 127.—Male of Elaphodus michianus. From Selater Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 278. 
glands, nor is there a tufted gland on the metatarsus. The limbs 
have the same peculiarities as in Cervudus, but the mesocuneiform 
may also ankylose with the ectocuneiform, and traces of the meta- 
carpals may remain. The hair is coarse and somewhat quill-like. 
Cervus.1—The great majority of the Deer of the Old World may 
be included in this large genus, which is one not easy of definition. 
The antlers of the male are, however, large, and two or three times 
the length of the head, and may be either rounded or palmate ; the 
canines are never large; the ectocuneiform of the tarsus remains 
distinct from the naviculo-cuboid ; the lateral digits are represented 
by their phalanges ; and the skull does not carry prominent frontal 
ridges. Vertebre: C7, D13,L6,S 4, C11-14. The size of the 
1 Linn. Syst. Nad. 12th ed. vol. i. p. 92 (1766). 
