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91. 8. 7. ;'7. Skull and antlers. Bengal Sanderbans. 



Same histori/. 

 91. 8. 7. 38-39. Two skulls, with antlers. Eohilkhand ; 

 collected by Eoss Scott, Esq. Same history. 



98. 8. 8. 1. Skin, mounted. India. 



Presented hy the Duke of Bedford, K.G., 1898. 



2. 9. 15. 1. Skin, albino female, mounted. Brinja, Oudli. 



Presented hy Mrs. Bcllcio, 1902. 



3. 1. 10. 1. Skin, female. Near Klandapur, S. Kanara. 



Presented hy H. A. Latham, Esq., 1903. 



12. 10. 31. 11. Skull and antlers (fig. 13). Delira Dun. 

 Length of one antler 38J, of other 36| inches. 



Bequeathed hy A. 0. Hume, Esq., C.B., 1912. 



12. 10. 31. 12. Skull and antlers. Basim district, Berar. 

 Length of antlers 37^ inches, basal girth 41, tip-to-tip 

 interval 24f inches. Same history. 



12. 10. 31. 13. Frontlet and antlers. Bulundshahr, 

 Ganges Khadir, Eohilkhand ; collected by Mr. Hume. This 

 specimen stands No. 14 in Ward's 1910 list; length of 

 antlers 19^, girth 3|-, tip-to-tip 9 J inches. Same history. 



B.— Cervus axis ceylonensis. 



Axis maoulata ceylonensis, Fitzinger, Sitzher. h. Ah. Wiss. Wieri, 



vol. Ixx, pt. 1, p. 269, 1874.* 

 Cervus (Eusa) axis zeylanious, Lydekker, Field, vol. iv, p. 947, 1905, 



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



Typical (and only) locality Ceylon ; typified by H. Smith's 

 " Ceylon variety."* 



Antlers lighter and more slender than in typical race ; 

 ground-colour yellower and purer fawn ; spots smaller, and 

 absent on the uniformly brown forehead, which has no dark 

 horseshoe-mark. 



5. 5. 18. 1. Head, mounted. Ceylon ; collected by 

 Lieut.-Col. F. W. Begbie. Co-type of C. zeylanicus. 



Presented hy Walter Reynolds, Esq., 1905. 



5. 5. 19. 1. Body-skin. Ceylon. Co-type of C. zey- 

 lanicus. Presented hy Lieut.-Col. F. W. Begbie, 1905. 



* Cervus axis ceylonensis, TI. Smith, in the present writer's 

 Deer of All Lands, p. 179, is a misquotation. 



