112 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



68. 3. 21. 4. Skin, female, mounted. Formosa. 



Same history. 

 68. 12. 20. 1-1. Skin, mounted. Formosa. Same history. 



XIV. CEEVUS (SIKA) HOETULOEUM. 



Cervus pseudaxis, Gray, Proc. Zool. 8oo. 1861, p. 236, pi. xxvii, neo 



Eydoiix and Souleyet, 1841-52. 

 Cervus hortulorum, Swinlioe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 169 ; Lydehker, 



ibid. 1897, p. 42, Deer of All Lands, p. 117, pi. ix, 1898, Great 



and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 234, 1901. 

 (?) Cervus raandarinus, Milne-Edwards, Bech. Mamrn. p. 174, 1871 ; 



Broohe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 968; LydeJcJcer, ibid. 1897, 



p. 44, Deer of All Lands, p. 121, 1898. 

 Cervus dybowskii. Taczanoivshi, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 123, Broohe, 



ibid. 1878, p. 909 ; NoacTt, Humboldt, vol. viii, p. 4, fig. 1, 1889 ; 



Kohler, Zool. Garten, vol. xliii, p. 28, 1892 ; Lydehher, Horns 



and Hoofs, p. 287, 1893, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 40. 

 (?) Cervus mantschuricus major, Noaclc, Humboldt, vol. viii, p. 5, 



fig. 4, 1889. 

 Cervus dybowsH, Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 2, p. 22, 1896. 

 Cervus (Pseudaxis) hortulorum, Wa^rd, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, 



p. 52, 1910. 

 Cervus (Sika) hortulorum, Lydehher, Ward's Becords of Big Game, 



ed. 7, p. viii, 1914. 



The type specimens were shot in the gardens of the 

 Summer Palace, Pekin, after its sack on October 12th, 1860 ; 

 the typical locality of dybowskii is the Usuri district of 

 Manchuria. 



Size large, the shoulder-height reaching 3 feet 7 inches ; 

 coat profusely spotted with white at all seasons, although 

 somewhat more fully in summer than in winter, when it is 

 very long and shaggy ; in winter general colour of body in 

 sub-adult males bright chestnut-brown ; neck without spots, 

 bluish grey at base, then a blackish collar, followed by 

 chestnut ; face bluish grey ; metatarsal tuft similar to the 

 hair of rest of shanks in summer, but the centre greyisli 

 white; thighs and fore-legs greyish brown; under-parts 

 greyish white ; tail rather short, white with a black median 

 stripe, and often a dark band above the white on the 

 buttocks ; in summer the spots more numerous and the 

 general colour chocolate-brown. Adult bucks (of the 

 so-called dylowskii) in winter-coat are described by Noack 

 as follows : — General colour yellowish umber-brown, tending 



