Archive image from page 91 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 64 Elaphine Group ment of the large light area in the caudal region, must likewise be regarded as specialised features ; but it is interesting to note that the caudal disk is least developed in some of the Central Asiatic species, in which the markings are very like those of the sikas. Evidence of affinity with that group is further proclaimed by the dappled coat of the fawns. And although it is generally stated that the adult pelage
Archive image from page 91 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 64 Elaphine Group ment of the large light area in the caudal region, must likewise be regarded as specialised features ; but it is interesting to note that the caudal disk is least developed in some of the Central Asiatic species, in which the markings are very like those of the sikas. Evidence of affinity with that group is further proclaimed by the dappled coat of the fawns. And although it is generally stated that the adult pelage is entirely unspotted, one or more rows of such spots may frequently be detected in English red deer hinds in the summer coat, and a herd of Caspian red deer in the same pelage living at Woburn Abbey in the summer of 1897 were Fig. 17.—Group of' Red Deer at Woburn Abbey. From a photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. almost as much spotted as many sikas at the same time of year. In all members of the present group the velvet of the antlers is of a grayish fawn colour. Distribution.—The Holarctic region, dating from the Plistocene epoch. [. The Red Deer—Cervus elaphus Cervus elaphus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 93 (1766) ; Jenyns, Brit. Vert. Animals, p. 37 (1835) ; Bell, Brit. Quadrupeds, p. 394 (1837) ; Keyserling and Blasius, Wirbelth. Europ. p. 26 (1840) ; P. L. Sclater, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vii. p. 342 (1871) ; Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. Ixix. part i. p. 565 (1874); Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 22 (1896); Satunin, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. vol. ix. p. 309 (1896) ; Biichner, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersburg, 1896, p. 387.
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