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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



No. I.— LARGE KASHMIR STAG HEAD {CERVVS 

 CASHMlIilANUb). 



The enclosed photograph measurements of a Kashmir Stag {Cervus 

 cas/mirianus) may be of interest to some of your readers. The horns were 

 measured by Major Wigram, K. O. S. Borderers, the Secretary, Game 

 Preservation Department, Kashmir State. 



Length — left 48, right 51^ inches. 



Girth — 6 A inches. 



Tip to tip — 21 inches. 



Outside spread — 41^ inches. 



Points — 6+5 ^11 inches. 



The stag was shot in one of the side nullahs of the Liddar Valley 

 within a day's march of Bijhehare, and was well-known locally,, as he 

 used to stay at one or other of the lower valleys annually, when driven 



