972 



UNGULATA 



190; pencil, 100; hind foot (with hoof), 435 ; ear from crown, 

 165 ; width of ear at middle, 90. For cranial measurements see 

 Table, p. 983. 



Specimens examined. — Sixty-seven, from the following localities: — 

 England : As enumerated below, 62. 

 Sweden: No exact locality, 1 (U.S.N.M.). 

 Germany : No exact locality, 1. 

 Locality unknown : Three (U.S.N.M.) 



,5 st. 



cJst. 



6 st. 



6 st. 

 2<5st. 



Woburn, Bedford- 

 shire, England. 



Tring Park, Hert- 

 fordshire. 



England. 



England. 

 England. 



3 pairs antlers. England, 

 antlers. 



Duke of Bedford (p). 



Hon. Walter Boths- 

 child (p). 



Purchased (Lead- 

 beater). 



Purchased (Baker). 



No history. 



46 antlers. 



6 skull. 



9 skull. 



2 i 2 9 skulls. 



<5st. 



N a n n a n P a r k, J. E. Harting (p). 



Merionethshire. 

 New Forest. Mrs. Smyth (p). 



England. Purchased. 



England. 



Lidth de Jeude Coll. 



Italy. 



Purchased (Lefebvre). 



96. 9. 24. 1. 

 98. 10. 18. 1. 



46. 10. 23. 11. 



693. a. b. d. 

 88. 6. 12. 3. 



50. 2. 5. 1-46. 

 50. 11. 13. 15. 

 693. k. 



67. 4. 12. 234, 

 235, 236, 241. 

 43. 12. 29. 4. 



Genus CAPREOLUS Gray. 



1821. Capreolus Gray, London Med. Bepos., xv, p. 307, April 1, 1821. 

 1837. Caprea Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1836, p. 135, June 27, 1837. 

 1857. Capreolus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 457. 



Type species. — Cervus capreolus Linnaeus. 



Geographical distribution. — Central and southern Europe from 

 Great Britain and southern Scandinavia eastward ; in Asia east 

 to the Pacific coast. 



Characters. — Telemetacarpalian deer of small size with narrow, 

 elongate hoofs, maxillary canines normally absent,* lower incisors 

 distinctly though not excessively differentiated in size and form, 

 lachrymal vacuity large, the pit reduced to a shallow, inconspicuous 

 depression ; vomer low posteriorly, showing no tendency to divide 

 the posterior nares into two chambers ; antler small,! first appear- 

 ing about a year after birth, erect, terete, without brow tine, 

 the prongs normally three, the pedicle appearing to arise further 

 back than in Cervus, but its anterior base extending over orbital 

 cavity ; tail reduced to an inconspicuous papilla ; muzzle naked ; 

 young with spotted coat very different from pelage of adult. 



* For account of their occasional occurrence see Kolliker, Wiirzburger 

 Naturwiss. Zeitschr., vi, p. 82, 1866. 



t Sometimes present in females (see Sherren, Field, London, cxiv, 

 p. 751, October 23, 1909). 



