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usual oval black spot; horns smooth, slender, nearly straight, elon¬ 
gate, the basal snag bent down on the forehead/’— Sundevall. 
Cervus (Hippelaphus) lepida, Sundev. Pecora, 57.— Rusa lepida, 
Gray, Knows. Menag. 63. 
Inhabits Java. Mus. Frankfort. Scarcely as large as a Roebuck. 
8. Axis, H. Smith; Hippelaphus***, Sundev. 
Covered with moderately thick, polished hairs ; fulvous and beauti¬ 
fully white spotted at all seasons; the face is elongate, narrow, and 
the ears large, rather elongate and acute, with a rather elongate tail, 
and nearly equally long, slender legs ; the horns are placed on mode¬ 
rately long peduncles ; the skull is elongate, narrow, with an oblong, 
rather small, deep suborbital pit. 
1. Axis maculata. The Axis or Chiltra. 
Fulvous, with a black dorsal streak, edged with a series of white 
spots; sides with many white spots in an oblique curved line, and 
with a short white streak obliquely across the haunches. 
Young fawn , spotted exactly hke the adult. 
Axis, Plin. ?; Buffon, H. N. xi. t. 38, 39 ; Cuvier, Menag. Mus. t. ; 
Oss. Foss. iv. 38. t. 5. f. 24, 29.— Cervus Axis, Erxl.; Schreb. t. 250; 
Bennett, Gard. Zool. Soc. 253 ; Sundev. Pecora, 57.— Axis maculata, 
Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 178.— A. major, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. 
Soc. Bengal, x. 914.— A. minor , Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 
x. 914.— A. medius, Hodgson, Icon. ined. — Cervus pseudaxis, Ger- 
vais, Toy. Bonite, 64. t. 12; Institute, 1841, 419; Sundev. Pecora, 
57* — C. Axis Ceylonensis, H. Smith. 
Var. Blackish. Cervus nudipalpebra, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1831, 136 ; 
Sundev. Pecora, 57. 131. 
Inhabits India. 
The horns of this species vary greatly in size. Pennant describes 
two Deer under the names of 1. Greater Axis, Pennant, Syn. 52; 
Quad. 106 — Cervus Axis y, Gmelin ; 2. Middle-sized Axis, Pennant, 
Quad. \06 = Cei'vus Axis /3, Gmelin, from the horns alone : these are 
probably only large-horned examples of the common species ; 3. C. 
pseudaxis, which has been regarded as a species of Rusa, is only a 
small-horned variety. 
9. Hyelaphus, Sundev.; Axis, sp. H. Smith. 
Covered with moderately thick, polished hair ; fulvous, and spotted 
in the summer; with a rather elongated tail, and rather short legs, 
the front being rather the shortest; the face is short, broad, and 
arched in front; the ears short and rounded; the horns are placed 
on moderately long peduncles. 
1. Hyelaphus porcinus. The Lugna Para or Shgoriah. 
Brown or yellowish brown, with an indistinct darker dorsal streak, 
and -with obscure whitish spots, but without any white streak on the 
sides or haunches; in the winter brown and spotless; front of face 
