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Show 276 MESSRS. DANFORD AND ALSTON O N [Mar. 20, 20. *CERVUS ELAPHUS, Linn. Stiyiin. Common in the thickly wooded districts of the north-west. Many stags' heads seen at Ismid near Constantinople appeared all to belong to the usual type of C. elaphus. It also occurs on the southern side of the Cilician Taurus, and appears to be more numerous on the Kermesdagh and in the neighbourhood of Marasch. Herr Kotschy alludes to "the yet unknown Stag of the wide Pyramus woods," near which river Danford has been since informed that they are to be met with. Some horns seen at Kaisariyeh, and a pair in our possession alleged to come from the latter districts, are of great size compared with those of animals killed in the north. 21. *CERVUS DAMA, Lana. Yamoorcha. Common on the plains of the south coast and in the lower elevations of the mountains bordering upon them. At Adalia Danford met with the Fallow Deer, among the bushy scrub, within a mile of the town. According to Ainsworth, they are especially common on the Kara Bel and Chamku Bel Mountains. 22. *CERVUS CAPREOLUS, Linn. Karadja. Generally distributed in the wooded districts, but more common in the north than in the south. Its existence in the Lebanon has recently been established by Canon Tristram and Professor Newton1. The horns seem to correspond with the European form ; but the skin appears to differ in the length and texture of the hair, that of a specimen killed in the Cilician Taurus being shorter and finer. 23. GAZELLA DORCAS (Linn.). Jairan. Not uncommon on the plain of Tchukur-ova and about Tarsus and Adana. Ainsworth says that this species is replaced on the Tigris, near Kiit Aamarah, by Cr. subgutturosa. 24. *CAPRA .EGAGRUS, Gmel. Kayeek. Common throughout the Taurus and Armenia, but not found in the west or north of the country, or on the isolated Mount Argaeus, near Caesarea. Its vertical range extends from the mountain- summits to (in some districts) the sea-level. For fuller notes on this species as observed by Danford in Asia Minor see P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 458-468. 25. *Ovis GMELINI, Blyth. Kotch, Yaban koyun (wild sheep). Common in many districts of the interior, particularly about the salt lakes in the Vilayet of Konia. It is also found in the elevated plain of Palanga, above Marasch, and thence ranges east and north to Kurdestan and Armenia. It is somewhat remarkable that Danford could find no trace of this animal either in the country to the north of the Ala Dagh or on the wide-reaching grassy plateau between Kaisariyeh and the Black Sea. It seems hardly ever to occur on the southern slopes of the 1 P.Z.S. 187B, pp. 420, 701. |