. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Characters 143 deer, in which the spots disappear in the adult during the winter. But the most specialised forms of all are the various kinds of sambar, in which the adult is uniformly coloured at all seasons, while even the fawn may have lost its dappling. It is probable that the group reached the Oriental region at a comparatively early epoch (remains of fossil species occurring. Fig. 38.—Frontlet and Antlers of Indian Sambar. From a specimen from Simrol, in the Britis
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Characters 143 deer, in which the spots disappear in the adult during the winter. But the most specialised forms of all are the various kinds of sambar, in which the adult is uniformly coloured at all seasons, while even the fawn may have lost its dappling. It is probable that the group reached the Oriental region at a comparatively early epoch (remains of fossil species occurring. Fig. 38.—Frontlet and Antlers of Indian Sambar. From a specimen from Simrol, in the British Museum. (Rowland Ward, Records of Big Game.) in the Pliocene strata of the Siwalik Hills), and that it has had no con- nection with the ancestors of any of the preceding groups since the early part of the Pliocene epoch, when it may have branched off" from the sikine stock. Numerous remains from the Pliocene deposits of Europe have been assigned to the present group, but at least a considerable propor- tion of these seem rather to belong to sikas. Distribution.—The Oriental 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, 1849-1915. London, R. Ward, limited
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