CERVID^ 153 



Height at shoulder about 3 feet 9 inches, or about the 

 size of a large red deer. Head large, with small eyes and 

 ears, and a long, narrow muzzle ; limbs stout ; coat short and 

 smooth, but longer on the middle line of chest and under- 

 parts, and forming a mane on neck and throat ; general 

 colour reddish tawny with a tinge of grey, passing through 

 an ill-defined darker band on the sides to a more decided 

 whitish grey on the nnder-parts ; neck, chest, and lower 

 portion of throat dark brown ; a blackish brown longitudinal 

 stripe on neck and fore part of back, and another on chest ; 

 rump and inner sides of thighs yellowish white, passing 

 gradually into the general colour of the body ; inner sides of 

 legs and entire shanks whitish yellow-grey ; tail like back, 

 except the terminal tuft, which is blackish brown ; face 

 brownish, with a blackish brown ring round each eye. 

 Female somewhat lighter coloured. Young reddish brown 

 with a tinge of yellow, at first profusely spotted with white. 

 Fine antlers measure from 28 to 35| inches along the outer 

 curve, with a basal girth of from 4| to 7^ inches, and a 

 tip-to-tip interval ranging from 13f to 27j inches. In some 

 cases, at any rate, the stags shed their antlers twice a year ; 

 but this may be a result of semi-domestication. 



70. 6. 22. 14. Skin and skeleton (1538, &), female. From 

 the herd in the gardens of the Summer Palace, Pekin. 



Purchased {Zoological Society), 1870. 



72. 12. 31. 3. Skin and skeleton, the latter (1538, a) 

 mounted. Same locality. Same history. 



98. 2. 25. 2. Head, mounted, and body-skin. From the 

 descendants of the same herd at Woburn Abbey. 



Presented hy the Duke of Bedford, K.G., 1848. 



99. 7. 20. 1. Skin, mounted. From the Woburn herd. 



Same donor, 1899. 



VII. Genus ODOCOILEUS. 



Odocoileus, Bafinesque, Atlantic Journ. vol. i, p. 109, 1832 ; Elliot, 

 Synop. Mamm. N. America (Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. ii), p. 38, 

 1901 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1912, p. 780 ; Miller, List N. Amer. 

 Mamm. p. 385, 1912. 



Mazama, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v, p. 314, 1827 

 nee Bafinesque, 1817. 



