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Although this form appears to be the most distinct of all 

 the local forms from the typical R eephalophus, it is perhaps 

 best regarded as a race rather than a species. Unlike U. c 

 michianus, it is a mountain animal. 



1. 3. 2. 17. Skull (fig. 8, B, and fig. 9), and skin. lehang. 

 Type. The molars are rather more worn than in U. c. 

 eephalophus, No. 11. 9. 8. 44. 



Presented by F. W. Styan, Esq^., 1901. 



IV. Genus DAM A. 



Dama, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 84, vol. v, 

 p. 306, 1827 ; Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, p. 125, 1898 ; Pocock, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 950 ; Miller, Cat. Mamm. West. Europe, 

 p. 970, 1912. 



Platyceros, Wagner, Schreher's Sdugthiere, Suppl. vol. iv, p. 347, 

 1844. 



Daotjloceros, Wagner, op. cit. vol. v, p. 352, 1855. 



Maohlis, Zittel (ex Kaupl), Handbuch Pakeont. vol. iv, p. 402, 1893. 



Palmatus (= " Palmati," Oiehel, Sdugethiere, ed. 2, p. 351, 1859), 

 in Lydekher's Deer of All Lands, p. 125, 1828 ; Elliot, Cat. 

 Mamm. Field Mus. {Zool. Pub. Field Mus. vol. viii) p. 44, 1907. 



In this and the two following genera the structure of 

 the remnant of the lateral metacarpals is the same as in 

 Muntiacus and Elaphodus (plesiometacarpalian type), but 

 the antlers, which diverge from the middle line of the skull 

 at angles of about 45 degrees, are large, "with a true basal 

 tine, and are supported on relatively short pedicles, which do 

 not form ridges on the frontals, the upper canines of the 

 stags, when present, are not tusk-like, the lachrymal vacuities 

 of the skull are larger than in the preceding group, the 

 phalanges of the lateral digits are retained (instead of being 

 aborted), and the outer cuneiform bone of the tarsus is not 

 fused with the naviculo-cuboid, as it is in Muntiacus and 

 Elaphodus. Face-glands are present ; in the skull the vomer 

 is low behind, and does not divide the posterior nostrils ; and 

 there is a large muffle. Dama includes : Medium-sized 

 deer, in which the antlers are normally without a second 

 (bez) tine, but with a third (trez) tine, above which the beam 

 is distinctly, although narrowly, palmated, with snags on the 

 hind-border ; coat spotted in summer, uniformly coloured in 

 winter, with a black-bordered white area on the buttocks, in 



