Barbary Deer. 



Cervus Barbarus, Bennett. 



This is the only species of the Genus hitherto discovered on the vast continent of Africa, 

 and we are solely indebted for it to the liberality of Colonel Sir Thomas Reade, K.C.B., and 

 H. M. Agent and Consul-General at Tunis, who about the year 1831 presented a pair, alive, to the 

 Society. Since then he has forwarded others to the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby ; and in 

 1846, when in Tunis, I received from the same gentleman one male, three females and a young 

 one ; the three females were forwarded to Knowsley : the male, from which the accompanying 

 figure was taken, and the young one, which proved to be a female, have lately been purchased 

 from me by the Zoological Society. 



While in Tunis, I could not ascertain by what name the Arabs called the male, but the 

 female they designate "Fiirrtarsar." 



Notwithstanding Mr. Bennett's name has been so many years attached to this animal, I 

 believe it has never been figured or described until now; the reason may be partly explained, by 

 there remaining in that gentleman's mind some doubts whether it would or would not ultimately 

 prove identical with the Cerf de Corse of BufFon, but the want of actual specimens for comparison 

 leaves the subject still in doubt. 



Habitat, Tunis (in the Jereed only), North Africa ; it is also found in some parts of Algeria. 



