1 1 6 Sikine Group 



and although evidently not fully mature, I cannot think it would ever have 

 grown six inches more. It shows a distinct light metatarsal tuft, which is 

 not apparent in the figure of the type, but may have been accidentally 

 omitted. Except for the reduced size of the white caudal patch, this 

 animal is in all respects essentially a large variety of the Japanese sika. 

 The type of C. kopschi, from China, is in the British Museum, and appears 

 rightly identified by Sir Victor Brooke with this race. 



Distribution. — South-Western Manchuria, or Shingking, typically from 

 the neighbourhood of Ying-tzu-kou (Nuchwang), but probably occurring 

 in other parts of Northern China. In habits this form is doubtless iden- 

 tical with the last. 



2. The Formosan Sika — Cervus taevanus 



Cervus taiouanus, Blyth, "Jour/i. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxix. p. 90 (i860) ; 

 Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. i860, p. 376. 



Cervus taevanus, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 152, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 vol. vii. p. ^45 ( 1 87 1 ) ; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 362 ; Brooke, 

 ibid. 1878, p. 909; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Intl. Mus. part ii. p. 45 

 ( 1 89 1 ) ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 22 (1896) ; Lydekker, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1897, p. 45. 



Pseudaxis taivanus, Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 70 (1872), Hand- 

 list Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 141 (1873). 



Elaphoceros taevanus, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxix. part i. p. 599 



(l874). 



Axis taivanus, Rlitimeyer, Abh. schweiz. pal. Ges. vol. viii. p. 93 (1881). 



Plate VIII 



Characters. — Nearly allied to the common sika, but distinctly spotted 

 in winter. Height medium, apparently about 2 feet 1 1 inches at the 

 shoulder. The face shorter, the muzzle more pointed, the limbs shorter, 

 and the body longer than in the common sika. Ground-colour of summer 

 pelage light chestnut, with large white spots, and a deep red tinge on the 

 hinder part of the neck ; in winter the spots less numerous ; the black 

 border to the white caudal area forming a more distinct bar superiorly, 

 the median black line on the tail broader, and the dark line down the back 

 very strongly marked. 



