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Dama, from which, however, it differs in the characters ol the 

 antlers, the absence of clefts on the front-pasterns, and the 

 fuller union of the hind-hoofs by means of an intervingual 

 web. 



The range is restricted to Peninsular India and Ceylon. 



I. CEEVUS (AXIS) AXIS. 



Cervus axis, Erxleben, Syst. Begn. Anim. p. 312, 1777 ; F. Cuvier, 

 Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. i, pis. 102 and 103, 1819 ; H. Smith, 

 Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 117, 1827 ; /. B. Fischer, 

 Synop. Mamm. p. 451, 1829; Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Begne Anim., 

 Mamm. p. 172, 1842 ; Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 17 ; Broolte, 

 ibid. 1878, p. 906 ; Flotver and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. 

 B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 208, 1884; W. L. Sclattr, Cat. Mamm. 

 Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 181, 1891 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, 

 Mamm. p. 546, 1891 ; Lydeliker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 289, 1893, 

 Deer of All Lands, p. 179, pi. xiii, 1898, Great and Small Game 

 of India, etc. p. 220, 1900, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 238, 

 1907; Nitsche, Studien Uber Hirsche, p. 94, 1898; Bentham, 

 Asiai. Horns and Antlers Ind. Mus. p. 80, 1908 ; Ward, Records 

 of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 68, 1910. 



Cervus (Axis) axis, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v, 

 p. 312, 1827; LydeVker, Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 38, 

 1913, Ward's Becords of Big Game, ed. 7, p. 70, 1914. 



Cervus nudipalpebra, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 136. 



Axis maculatus,* Jardine, Naturalist's Lihr., Mamm. vol. iii, pp. vi 

 and 167,t pi. xiii, 1835 ; Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 178, 



1843, List Osteol. Brit. Mus. p. 66, 1847, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, 

 p. 233, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 212, 1852, Cat. Buminants 

 Brit. Mus. p. 80, 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 152, 

 1873 (maculata) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 262, 1862; Jerdon, Mamm. India, p. 260, 1867; Fitzinger, 

 Sitzber. h. Ak. Wias. Wien, vol. Ixx, pt. i, p. 264, 1874 ; 

 Sterndale, Mamm. India, p. 506, 1884; Percy, Big Game 

 Shooting {Badminton Libr.), vol. ii, p. 264, 1894. 



Axis major and minor, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc' Bengal, vol. x, 



p. 941, 1841. 

 Cervus (Hippelaphus) axis, Sundevall, K. Svensha Vet. -AT;. Handl. 



1844, p. 180, 1846. 



Hyelaphus maculatus, Fitzinger, Sitzber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 



vol. Ixx, pt. 1, p. 259, 1874. 

 Axis nudipalpebra, Fitzinger, op. cit. p. 270, 1874. 

 Axis (Axis) axis, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 948. 

 Axis axis, Wroughton, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. xxi, 



p. 1193, 1912; Cabrera, Cat. Met. Mam. Mus. Madrid, p. 130, 



1912 ; Dodsworth, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. xxii, 



p. 748, 1914. 



* Or maculata. 



t Misprinted aculatus in text. 



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