CERVID^E 135 



ICOl, Field, vol. cxi, p. 70, 1908 ; Elwes, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. 



vol. xxiv, p. 39, 1899 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 47, 



1910 ; Mehely, Termt. Kdzl. Budapest, vol. xlii, p. 806, 1910. 

 Cervus sibiricus, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1907, p. 222. 

 Cervus canadensis sibiricus, LydeM-er, Field, vol. cxi, p. 70, 1908, as 



an alternative name ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 7, p. 47, 



1914. 



Typical locality Sayansk and Baikal Mountains, west of 

 Lake Baikal. 



Compared with those of the next race, the antlers, 

 according to Matschie, are less stout and lighter in colour, 

 and have the fourth tine inclining outwards instead of 

 inwards, with only a slight bend at the tip, and the beam at 

 this point curving gradually inwards and backwards, with 

 the backward inclination less marked than in the Tien-Shan 

 race. On the front surface of the upper half of the beam 

 there is only one large tine (the fourth), the terminal portion 

 forming a long-handled but short-tined fork. This terminal 

 fork inclines inwards from the line of the summit of the 

 fourth tine, and also somewhat inwards from that of the 

 third tine, while between the third and fourth tines there is 

 no sharp inward angulation of the beam.* 



The range apparently includes a portion of the Altai, as 

 well as part of the district to the southward of Lake Teletsk, 

 near the sources of the Yenisei (whence the stag figured in 

 The Deer of All Lands probably came). Whether the some- 

 what darker wapiti from the Krasnoyarsk district of the 

 Upper Yenisei is identical with this race, is still uncertain. 



78. 11. 21. 24. Antlers. Salair, Altai; collected by 



Dr. 0. Finsch. By exchange with the 



Geographical Society of Bremen, 1878. 



97. 5. 18. 2. Head-skin. Chuja Steppe, Altai. 



Presented hy Major C. S. Cvmhcrland, 1897. 



* The above details (as in the case of several of the other races) 

 are given solely on the authority of Matschie. A mounted specimen 

 of the present race in the Tring Museum appeared to the writer very 

 similar to the undermentioned example of the next race. As a rule, 

 however, the mammals of the Altai are distinct from those of the 

 Tien-Shan. 



