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Definition of Cervus sika
1. Noun. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
Generic synonyms: Cervid, Deer
Group relationships: Cervus, Genus Cervus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cervus Sika
Literary usage of Cervus sika
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Ruminant Mammalia: (Pecora, Linnæus) in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1872)
"I am therefore induced to believe that the following may prove to be the correct
synonymy of this species of Deer:— " Cervus sika, Tenim. Sf Sieb. ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1861)
"The figure of Temminck and Siebold's Cervus sika, in the ' Fauna Japonica,'
certainly looks very little like the male of this species. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological by Zoological Society of London Committee of Science and Correspondence, Committee of Science and Correspondence, Zoological Society of London (1850)
"Cervus sika. The SIKA. Dark brown ; cheeks and throat rather paler; ... Cervus sika,
Schlegel, Fauna Japon. t. 17 ; Sundev. Pecora, 55, 131; Gray, Knows. ..."
4. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by John Anderson, William Lutley Sclater, Indian Museum (1891)
"Cervus sika, Temminck and Schlegel Faun. Jap. Mamm., p. 54, pi. xvii (1847) ;
Blyth Cat., p. 148 ; PL Sclater PZS, ..."
5. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1874)
"This Deer is evidently the representative in China of Cervus sika of Japan, which
it resembles in general habit, though the present example is slightly ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"Japanese Deer (Cervus sika)—No body- measurements nor weights are to hand.
Maximum measurements, which are those of one pair of horns : Length, 2 ft. ..."
7. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1873)
"345, pis. 33 & 34, male, female, and young. 6. Cervus sika, p. 346, pi. 35, male
aud female. 7. ..."
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