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Sikine Group 



ii. The Sikine Group — Sitb-Genus Pseudaxis 



Pseudaxis, Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mas. p. 70 (1872) ; Brooke, Proc. 

 Zoo/. Soc. 1878, p. 907, as a sub-genus. 



EJaphoceros, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxviii. part i. p. 602 (1873), 

 lxix. part i. p. 596 (1874). 



Fig. 29. — Antlers of Japanese Sika. From specimens presented to the British Museum 



by Viscount Powcrscourt. 



Sika, Heude, Mem. hist. nat. emp. Chinois, vol. ii. p. 17 (1888). 

 Sikclapluis, Heude, op. cit. vol. ii. p. 146 (1894). 



Characters. — Antlers smaller and simpler than is usually the case in the 

 preceding group, flattened, generally four- (occasionally five-) tined, with 



