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Show 914 SIR V. BROOKE ON THE [Nov. 19, The semidomesticated life which the Fallow Deer has lead for so many generations in the parks of Europe has given rise to many permanent variations of colour. The natural colour of the species in a wild condition in summer is a brilliant fawn with white spots irregularly distributed over the upper parts of the sides and haunches, this spotted region being bounded inferiorly on the sides and posteriorly on the haunches by indefinite white lines. In winter the spots entirely disappear. Fig. 9. Cervus (Dama) dama. Fig. 10. Cervus (Dama) mesopotamicus. 33. CERVUS MESOPOTAMICUS. 1875. Cervus (Dama) mesopotamicus, Brooke, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 265, pl. 38. figs. 1, 2. 1876. , Brooke, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 298, figs. 1-4. Hab. Luristan hills (Persia). |
