136 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



i/ G.— Cervus canadensis songaricus. 



Cervus maral var. songavica, Severtzoiu, Turl-estan. Jevotnie, p. 109, 

 1873, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii, p. 386, 1876. 



Cervus eustephanus, Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 637, Scient. 

 Besults Second Yarhand Mission, Mamm. p. 90, 1875 ; Broohe, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 912 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. 

 Mus. pt. ii, p. 184, 1891 ; Poiisargues, Bull. Mus. Paris, 1895, 

 p. 266; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 2, p. 42, 1896; Gillett, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. ii, p. 179; Bentham, Cat. Asiat. 

 Horns and Antlers hid. Mas. p. 66, 1908. 



Cervns canadensis eustephanus, Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, 

 p. 447. 



Cervus canadensis asiaticus, LydcJikcr, Deer of All Lands, p. 108, 

 1898, partim. 



Cervus xanthopygus eustephanus, Pousargucs, Mem. Soc. Zool. 

 France, vol. xi, p. 211, 1898. 



Cervus canadensis songaricus, Lydekker, Great and Small Game of 

 Europe, etc. p. 59, 1901, Field, vol. cxi, p. 70, 1908; Ward, 

 Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 45, 1910, ed. 7, p. 45, 1914. 



Cervus songaricus, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freundc, 1907, p. 222. 



Typical locality the Zungarian Tien-Shan, probably in 

 the neighbourhood of Kulja. 



Very similar to the typical American race, but apparently 

 distinguished liy the narrower and more orange-coloured 

 rump-patch, not including the middle line of the tail, which 

 is coloured like the back ; the larger amount of black on the 

 borders of the rump-patch, thighs, and flanks, the greyer 

 general colour in summer, and the shorter and stouter fourth 

 tine of the antlers. Compared with those of the other 

 Asiatic races, the antlers are stated by Matschie to be 

 distinguished by their stoutness and the length and massive- 

 ness of their tines, as well as by their dark colour. From 

 the trez-tine the beam inclines slightly inwards towards the 

 root of the fourth tine, which is very large and strongly bent 

 inwards ; at the root of the fourth tine the beam is markedly 

 bent inwards and backwards, all the tines on its front 

 surface being long, stout, parallel, and nearly at right angles 

 to its axis. The upper portion of the antler in fully deve- 

 loped specimens is 3-tined, and placed practically in the 

 same place as the tip of the fourth, and nearly in that of the 

 tip of the third tine. 



The range includes the Tarlmgatai district. 



79. 11. 21. 50-52. Three shed antlers. Tien-Shan; col- 



