Damine Group 



21. Sika mitratus, vol. iii. p. 102 (1896). 



22. ,, ellipticus, ,, p. 103 



23. ,, elegans, ,, p. 103 



24. ,, minoensis, „ p. 104 



25. ,, rutilus, „ p. 105 



26. ,, yesoensis, ,, p. 105 



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iii. The Damine Group — Sub-Genus Dama 



Alee, Blumenbach, Beitriige Naturgesehichte, 1st French ed. vol. ii. p. 407 

 (1803). 



Dama, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v. p. 306 (1827) ; 

 Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 181 (1843) '•> Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, 

 vol. lxviii. part i. p. 349 (1873), lxix. part i. p. 546 (1874) ; Brooke, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 913; Riitimeyer, Abh. schweiz. pal. Ges. vol. viii. p. 43 

 (1881). 



Megaceros, Owen, Rep. Brit. Assoc. for 1843, p. 237 (1844). 

 Platyceros, Wagner, Schreber's Sdugethiere, vol. iv. p. 347 (1854). 

 Dactyloceros, Wagner, op. cit. vol. v. p. 352 (1855). 

 Palmatus, Giebel, Sdugethiere, p. 351 (1859). 



Characters. — Antlers normally without a bez (second), but with a trez 

 (third) tine, above which the beam is more or less palmated, and generally 

 furnished with numerous snags. Pelage of adult normally spotted with 

 white in summer, uniform in winter with a black-bordered white area in 

 the region of the tail, as in the sikine group ; young spotted. Throat not 

 maned ; ears moderate ; tail rather long ; head relatively short. Naked 

 portion of the muzzle much the same as in the red deer group. No upper 

 canines ; molars unusually broad transversely ; face-gland rather small ; 

 size medium or large. 



Distribution. — Now restricted to the Mediterranean sub-region of the 

 Eastern Holarctic region, but during the Plistocene and Pliocene epochs 

 ranging over a large part of Europe. 



Although the fallow deer were widely separated by Sir Victor Brooke 

 from the sikine group, there seems no doubt that the two are closely allied. 

 A year previously the late Professor Garrod 1 had written that " Dama 



1 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 18. 



