. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Distribution 23 type in the Pliocene of the same area, points to the conclusion that the Old World was the original home of the types of deer by which it is now populated. And it may further be considered certain that the wapiti is a comparatively recent immigrant into North America by way of Bering Strait. Not improbably the elks are likewise immigrants into the New World from the Old, although generalised types occur in the later Tertiary deposits of both areas. With r
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Distribution 23 type in the Pliocene of the same area, points to the conclusion that the Old World was the original home of the types of deer by which it is now populated. And it may further be considered certain that the wapiti is a comparatively recent immigrant into North America by way of Bering Strait. Not improbably the elks are likewise immigrants into the New World from the Old, although generalised types occur in the later Tertiary deposits of both areas. With regard to the place of origin of the reindeer, there is no decisive evidence available. The most primitive of the brow-. Fig. 4.—Diagrammatic Map of the distribution of Deer. The oblique shading indicates the approximate range of the Reindeer and Elk ; the vertical that of the sub-genus Cervus, and in the Old World also of the Sikine and Daminc groups, as well as of the Roes ; the cross-shading that of the Rusine group and Muntjacs ; and the horizontal that of the American Deer. antlered Old World deer are undoubtedly the muntjacs, sambars, chital, and sikas, and there is proof that most or all of these existed in the European Tertiaries. Their existence in the Oriental region, and some adjacent parts of the Eastern Holarctic region, where species of the red deer group are wanting, is one out of many instances of the survival of ancient forms of life in these areas. That the fallow deer group is a specialised ofF-shoot from the sikas, may be asserted with considerable confidence; and the red deer group, characterised by the speciality of generally developing a bez- tine, may likewise be regarded as descended from the latter. Hence all. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lydekker, Richard, 1849
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