. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. CERVIDAS 319 slender, converging pedicles. Ascending rami of premaxillse shorter than nasals. No supraorbital ridges or frontal glands. Ui^per canines of male long, but not everted. A distinct frontal tuft of hair. Other characters as in Cervulus. This genus (which has also received the name of Lophotragus) is represented by a small Deer (Fig. 127) from China of about the same size as the Indian Muntjac. The male has minute simple antlers and very large canine teeth. There are no supraorbital 'A_^. 4 -xix Fig. 1'27.—Male of
. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. CERVIDAS 319 slender, converging pedicles. Ascending rami of premaxillse shorter than nasals. No supraorbital ridges or frontal glands. Ui^per canines of male long, but not everted. A distinct frontal tuft of hair. Other characters as in Cervulus. This genus (which has also received the name of Lophotragus) is represented by a small Deer (Fig. 127) from China of about the same size as the Indian Muntjac. The male has minute simple antlers and very large canine teeth. There are no supraorbital 'A_^. 4 -xix Fig. 1'27.—Male of Elaphodus inichianus. From Selater Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S76, p. 273. glands, nor is there a tufted gland on the metatarsus. The limbs have the same peculiarities as in Cervulus, but the mesoouneiform may also ankylose with the ectocuneiform, and traces of the meta- carpals may remain. The hair is coarse and somewhat quill-like. Cervus}—The great majority of the Deer of the Old World may be included in this large genus, which is one not easy of definition. The antlers of the male are, however, large, and two or three times the length of the head, and may be either rounded or palmate; the canines are never large; the ectocuneiform of the tarsus remains distinct from the naviculo-cuboid; the lateral digits are represented by their phalanges; and the skull does not carry prominent frontal ridges. Vertebrae: 0 7, D 13, L 6, S 4, 0 11-14. The size of the 1 Linn. Syst. Kat. 12th ed. vol. i. p. 92 (1766).. 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 Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, A. and C. Black
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