Swamp-Deer 189 



Metatarsal gland small or wanting. Upper canines small ; upper molars 

 with a small additional column on the inner side. Size large. 



The skull is of very much the same type as that of the preceding group, 

 but relatively narrower, with the auditory bulls on the under surface 

 only moderately inflated. 



The group is evidently nearly allied to the rusine division, from 

 which the more specialised form of the antlers suggests that it is a late 

 development. Remains referred to this group have been described from 

 the later Tertiary deposits of India, but beyond this nothing is known as to 

 its palasontological history. Probably, however, it was developed in the 

 Oriental region, and from its absence from the Malayan Islands not 

 improbably at a date subsequent to the insulation of the latter. 



Distribution. — The mainland of the Oriental region, but unknown in 

 the islands with the exception of Hainan. 



1. The Swamp-Deer — Cervus duvauceli 



Cervus duvauceli, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, ed. 3, vol. iv. p. 505 (1825). 



Cervus bahrainja, Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1834, p. 99. 



Cervus elaphoides, Hodgson, yourn. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. iv. p. 648 



(■835). 



Cervus {Recurvus) elaplioides, Hodgson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. i. 

 p. 154 (1838). 



Cervus dimorphe, Hodgson, yourn. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xii. p. 807 



(-843). 



Axis (?) duvaucellii, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 178 (1843). 



Cervus {Hippelaphus) duvaucelii, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet. Ak. Hand/. 

 for 1844, p. 178 (1846). 



Rucervus duvaucellii, Gray, List Osteol. Brit. Mus. p. 65 (1847), Cat. 

 Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 203 (1852), Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 76 (1872) ; 

 Jerdon, Mamm. India, p. 254 (1867). 



Rusa dimorpha, Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 62 (1850) ; Fitzinger, 

 SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxviii. part i. p. 355 (1873). 



Cervus euceros, Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 40 (1850). 



Cervus eucladoceros, Falconer, Pal. Mem. vol. i. p. 587 (1868). 



Cervus duvaucelii, Sclater, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vii. p. 346 (1871). 



