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fallow deer, there appears every reason for including all in a single group, 

 of which the proper name should be Alee. 



1. The Common Fallow Deer — Cervus dama 



Cervus dama, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 93 (1766) ; Jenyns, Brit. 

 Vert. Animals, p. 38 (1835); Bell, Brit. Quadrupeds, p. 402 (1837) ; 

 Keyserling and Blasius, Wirbelth. Europ. p. 26 (1840) ; Brooke, Nature, vol. 

 xi. p. 210 (1874), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 913 ; Busk, Trans. Zool. Soe. vol. 

 x. p. 114 (1877) ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 43 (1896). 



Cervus platyeeros, Cuvier, Tableau elem. Hist. Nat. p. 160 (1798). 



Cervus mauricus, de Blainville, Journ. Physique, vol. xciv. p. 261 (1822). 



Cervus (Dama) dama, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. 

 p. 84, v. p. 306 (1827). 



Dama platyeeros, Fitzinger, Beitr. Landesk. Osterreichs, vol. i. p. 317 

 (1832), SB. Ak. Wien, vol. Ixviii. part i. p. 350 (1873), lxix. part i. p. 547 



(.8 74 ). 



Dama vulgaris, Gray, hist Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 181 (1843), ^at. 

 Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 200 (1852), Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 74 (1872) ; 

 Loche, Exped. Algerie, Mamm. p. 64 (1867) ; Sclater, List Animals Zool. 

 Gardens, p. 171 (1883). 



Cervus {Platyeeros) dama, Wagner, Schreber's Saugethiere, vol. iv. p. 347 



(■854). 



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



Cervus (Palmatus) dama, Giebel, Saugethiere, p. 351 (1859). 



Dama dama, Lataste, Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, vol. xxxix. p. 288 



(,88 5 ). 



Characters. — Height at shoulder about 3 feet. Antlers well palmated 

 and directed largely upwards, with the brow- and trez-tines simple, and the 

 front edge normally devoid of snags, which are, however, numerous on the 

 summit and hinder margin of the palmated portion. General colour of 

 summer pelage in the wild race a brilliant fawn, with large white spots 

 irregularly distributed over the back, upper part of the sides, and haunches ; 

 this spotted region being bounded inferiorly on the sides and posteriorly on 

 the haunches by indefinite white lines ; a blackish line running down the 

 middle of the back and tail ; a white area, bordered above by black on the 



