C'ERViri.'E 151 



Brooke stated that he saw the type in the Museum at 

 Frankfort, and that it appeared closely to resemble Cervus 

 iHpiMii. On a second visit it could not be found. 



2. Cervus caspious, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 47, 1878, p. 909 ; 

 Lydekker, ibid. 1897, p. 38, Deer of All Lands, p. 186, 1898. 



This species was named on the evidence of a frontlet and 

 antlers from the district south-west of the Caspian, which 

 was figured in 1874 when in the collection of Sir Victor 

 Brooke, where it could not be discovered at his death. The 

 antlers measured 26 inches in length along the curve, and 

 were three-tined. In his original description Brooke referred 

 the species to the rusine groiip, comparing it to 0. iniicolor 

 and C. timoricnsis, but in 1878 he placed it provisionally in 

 the sika group ; the ground of this redetermination a])parently 

 resting on another antler from the Karun Valley, in the 

 Luristan district of Persia, which may or may not have 

 belonged to the same species as the type. 



VI. Genus ELAPHURUS. 



Elaphurus, Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 5, vol. x, p. 380, 

 1866; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 906; Cameron, Field, 

 1892, April 80, p. 265, May 14, p. 703, May 21, p. 741, June 11, 

 p. 860; Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, p. 283, 1898; Pocock, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 945, 1912, p. 777. 



Lateral metacarpals represented by their upper ends as 

 in Cervus; no glands on front of pasterns; antlers larj;e, 

 cylindrical, and dichotomously forking at a comparatively 

 short distance above the bun-, with the front prong of the 

 main fork curving forwards and again dividing once or more, 

 and the hind prong long, straight, simple, and projecting 

 backwards ; muzzle with a large naked portion, deeper and 

 broader below the nostrils than in the elaphine group, but 

 extending only a little on to the front of the face, where its 

 upper border is deeply concave ; ears small and narrow ; 

 tail long, cylindrical, and bushy at the extremity ; neck 

 maned ; face long ; coat uniformly coloured, in young 

 spotted ; no tarsal tuft ; metatarsal tuft continuous and 

 situated in the upper third of the metatarsus ; gland-pits 

 and face-glands large ; hoofs large and spreading ; lateral 

 hoofs very large ; upper canines small ; upper molars 



