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Show 1878.] CLASSIFICATION O F T H E CERVID^;. 917 Upper margin of the internarial rhinarium running straight across from the upper angle of the nostrils. No infranarial rhinarium. lail very short. In the female the clitoris is surrounded by a long tuft of hair. Interdigital glands in the fore feet rudimentary, in the hind feet deep, opening by a narrow orifice into a capacious round pouch. Stature small. Young spotted. Distribution. Central and Western Palaearctic region. Capreolus cctprcea, 1. CAPREOLUS CAPR^EA. 1843. Capreolus caprcea, Gray, Cat. Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 176. 1844. Capreolus europceus, Sund. Pec, Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 1844, p. 184. Range. Scotland, Southern Sweden, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Tuscany, Greece, Turkey, Northern Palestine, Elburz Mountains (South of Caspian). I have received a specimen from the last-mentioned locality which differs in no respect from the European specimens. 2. CAPREOLUS PYGARGUS. 1771. Cervus pygargus, Pall. Reise Russ. Reichs, vol. i. p. 97, Append, p. 453. 1831. Cervus capreolus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. vol. i. p. 219. 1853. , Midd. Sib. Reis. Wirb. Band ii. Th. 2, p. 118. 1859. , Schrenck, Reis. u. Forsch. Amurlande, Band i. p. 163. 1862. , Radde, Reise Sud. v. Ost-Sib. Band i. p. 277. Range. Suitable localities in the mountains forming the watershed between the Russian and Chinese empires, in Central Asia ; Chingan Mountains (Mantchuria). Most authors have considered G. pygargus to be a large variety of the common Roe. There are, however, in the British Museum two specimens purchased from Brandt and said to be from Siberia, which, in their very much larger size, larger anal disk, and much more hairy ears, differ widely from all specimens of the common species. Specimens of Roe from Mantchuria in the British and Paris Museums are very much smaller than the above-mentioned PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1878, No. LX. 60 |
