Capreolus pygargus (Pallas, 1771)

Peter Grubb, 1993, Order Artiodactyla, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 377-414 : 390

Capreolus pygargus (Pallas, 1771) . Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs, 1:453.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Volga, Samara district, River Sok. Given by Rossolimo (in litt.) as Orenburgskaia Obi., Bulgulma-Belebei uplands, upper flow of River Sok .

DISTRIBUTION: S Ural and N Caucasus Mtns ( Russia), SE and E Kazakhstan, Tien Shan and S Siberia ( Russia) eastward to Pacific coast, south into N and C China, N Mongolia and Korea.

SYNONYMS: bedfordi, caucasico , ferghanicus, mantschuricus, melanotis , ochracea, tianschanicus.

COMMENTS: Now regarded by most Russian authors as a species distinct from C. capreolus ; see Sokolov and Gromov (1990). Rossolimo (in litt.) gave the original year of publication as 1773.