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UNGDLATA 



that the name Genus is currently applied to several groups 

 which should be recognized as distinct. 



It is not possible to attempt any revision of the European 

 members of this genus, since the requisite material, if it exists, 

 cannot now be brought together in one place. So far as can be 

 judged from the few specimens seen and from the descriptions 

 recently published, there is a distinct small form confined to 

 Sardinia, and a wide ranging, rather plastic continental animal 

 occurring in the forested regions, where not exterminated, from 

 Spain and Ireland eastward, and from Scotland and west-central 

 Norway to the Mediterranean coast. Apparently the Spanish, 

 British and Norwegian forms are smaller than those inhabiting 

 central Europe, while the largest specimens occur in eastern 

 Hungary. Although there is no probability that this course is 

 final I am treating all the European forms as geographical races 

 of Cervus elaphus. 



CERVUS ELAPHUS Linnaeus. 



(Synonymy under subspecies.) 



Geographical distribution. — Forested regions (where not ex- 

 terminated) from Spain and Ireland eastward, and from Sardinia 



Fig. 202. 

 Cervus elaphus. 



Xi. 



