970 



UNGDLATA 



at shoulder of mounted male in. Turin Museum 800 mm.), but 

 general colour darker than in any of the small continental forms. 

 Measurements. — For cranial measurements see Table, p. 984. 



Specimens examined. — Pour, all from Corsica (Turin). 



Genus DAMA Hamilton Smith. 



1827. Dama Hamilton Smith, Griffith's Cuvier, Anim. Kingd., v, p. 306. 



1844. Platyceros Wagner, Schreher's Saugth., Suppl., iv, p. 347. 



1855. Dactyloceros Wagner, Sohreber's Saugfch., Suppl. v, p. 352 (Substitute 



for Dama and Platyceros). 

 1857. Cervus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 39 (part). 

 1893. Machlis Zittel, Handb. Palaeont. iv, p. 402 (published as a synonym 



of Dama with Kaup as authority). 

 1898. Palmatus Lydekker, Deer of all Lands, p. 125. Wrongly attributed 



to Giebel, Saugethiere, p. 351 (a group name used in the plural : 



" Palmati mit schaufelformigem Gewieh "). 



Type species. — Cervus dama Linnfeus. 



Geographical distribution. — Mediterranean region of southern 

 Europe and western Asia ; occurs in a condition of semi- 

 domestication as far north as the British Islands and southern 

 Scandinavia. 



Characters. — Like Cervus but with skull shorter and relatively 

 much broader, orbits larger, maxillary canines absent, cheek- 

 teeth, particularly ra 2 , more brachydont, lower incisors (fig. 205) 

 excessively differentiated in both size and form ; antlers with 

 brow tine and trez tine present, and a distinct though narrow 

 palmation in region of surroyals.* 



Remarks. — The Fallow Deer form a sharply defined group 

 generically distinct from Cervus. Two species are known, one of 

 which occurs in Europe. 



DAMA dama Linnaeus. 



1758. [Cervus'] dama Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., i, 10th ed., p. 67. 

 1798. Cervus platyceros Ouvier, Tabl. Elem. de l'Hist. Nat. des Anim., 

 p. 160 (Renaming of dama). 



1816. L (sio) [ervus] mauricus P. Cuvier, Bull, des Soi. Soc. Philomath., 

 1816, p. 72 (locality not known). 



* The extinct genus Alee Blumenbach (Handb. d. Naturgesch., 6th ed., 

 p. 697, 1799, type Alee giganteus Blumenbach from the peat bogs of 

 Ireland = " Cervus megaceros " Auct. or " Megaceros hibemicus " Auct.), 

 though usually regarded as related to Dama, or even as identical with it 

 (see Lydekker, Deer of all Lands, pp. 126-127, 1898, for statement of 

 this extremely radical view), differs widely from all known genera of recent 

 deer in the combination of plesiometacarpalian foot, high vomer nearly 

 dividing posterior nares into two cavities, absence of maxillary canines and 

 excessively reduced lachrymal vacuity (see Ldnnberg, Arkiv for Zoologi, 

 HI, No. 14, August, 1906). 



