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this genus, of which only a single specific representative is at present known. 

 By its describer, Professor A. Milne-Edwards, it was regarded as a very 

 distinct form ; and this view was maintained by the late Dr. Gray, who 

 placed it between the roes and the American deer. Professor Fitzinger 

 likewise regarded it as entitled to generic distinction, but located it in the 

 neighbourhood of the rusine deer. On the other hand, Mr. Sclater, while 

 separating the tallow deer as a genus apart, includes Rlaphurus in Cervus ; 



Fig. 63. — Perc David's Milou Deer in the Park at Woburn Abbey. From a photograph by the 



Duchess of Bedford. 



and his view was followed by Sir Victor Brooke, with whom most other 

 subsequent writers have agreed. Mr. A. Gordon Cameron, basing his 

 conclusions on the structure of the antlers, has, however, revived the view 

 of Dr. Gray, and there is little doubt that he is correct in so doing. If 

 antlers count for anything in classification — and it is almost impossible to 

 denv that they do so — the genus has nothing to do with any of the living 

 Old World deer with the exception of the roes, while its alliance with the 

 American deer seems close. Probably it is still more closely connected with 

 the under-mentioned extinct types. That it differs from the American deer 



