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triangular, compressed; they are covered with thin, rather adpressed 
hairs, and have the hair of the nape reversed ; the fur is spotted in 
summer; the skull with a short broad face, an oblong, rather shallow, 
infraorbital pit; intermaxillary broad, reaching to the short broad 
nasals. 
1. Dama vulgaris. The Fallow Deer. 
Fulvous; white spotted, with the longitudinal streak on the lower 
part of the side, and the line across the haunches white. 
Var. From nearly black to nearly pure white. 
Platyceros, Plini .—Cervus platyceros, Raii Quad. 85.— Cervus 
dama, Linn.— Dama vulgaris, Gesner, Quad. 335. f. ; Gray, Cat. 
Osteol. Sp. B. M. 65 ; Knows. Menag. 60.— Follow Deer and Buck, 
Pennant.— Daim et Daime, Buffon.— Daim fame , F. Cuvier.— Cer¬ 
vus coronatus, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. t. . f. 4, from monstrous 
horns. 
Far. Blackish. 
_ Cervus mauricus, F. Cuv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816.— C. Dama maura, 
Fischer.— Daime noire, F. Cuv. Mam. Lith. 
Inhabits Persia. Domesticated in Europe. 
This species is represented in the sculptures from Nineveh. 
d. The Busine Deer or Samboos have a large moist muffle, 
which is as high as broad, and extends to the edge of the upper lip; 
hind-leg with a large tuft of hair rather above the middle of the meta¬ 
tarsus, and with a pencil of hair on the inner side of the hock ; a 
moderate tail, broad, short ears, and the fur consisting of hard, rather 
shining, thick, depressed hair; they have no white mark on the rump. 
The horns are cylindrical, generally rather longly peduncled, with a 
distinct anterior basal branch or snag close on the burr or crown, and 
are forked, and sometimes reforked, at the tip ; they have no medial 
snag. The skulls have a large, very deep, suborbital pit. They are 
confined to South-Eastern Asia and its islands. 
* some the upper part of the horns is variously branched. 
5. Panolia, Gray. 
The horns round, curved backwards and outwards, with a large 
anterior basal snag close on the burr ; the upper part bent in, forked, 
becoming rather expanded and branched on the inner or hinder edge ; 
the fur formed of rather rigid, flattened hair; muffle large; skull 
with a narrow face, a large, oblong, very deep suborbital pit, and the 
nasals short, broad, and dilated behind ; the frontal snag of the horns 
often has a tubercle or branch at the base. 
1. Panolia Eedii. The Sungnai. 
Panolia Eedii, Gray, Cat. Hodgson’s Coll. B. M. 34 ; Knowsley 
Menag. 61.— P. acuticornis, Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 180.— P.platy¬ 
ceros, Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 180 (adult horn). — Cervus lyratus, 
Schinz, Syn. ii. 395.— lCervus Smithii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, 
45.=— Cervus Eedii, Calcutta Journ. N. H. ii. 413. t. 12.— Cervus 
