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XVIII. CERVUS WALLICHI. 



Cervus wallichi, Cuvier, Ossemcns Fossiles, 1812 (teste Pousargues), 

 ed. 3, vol. iv, p. 504, 1825, ed. 4, vol. vi, p. 89, 1835 ; F. Cuvier, 

 Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. ii, livr. xxxix, pi. 225 (356), 1823; 

 H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 103, pi. ix, 1827 ; 

 J. B. Fischer, Synop. MavDii. p. 452, 1829 ; Jardine, Naturalist's 

 Libr., Matnm. vol. iii, p. 161, pi. x, 1835; Blyth, Journ. Asiat. 

 Sac. Bengal, vol. x, pt. 2, p. 745, 1841, vol. xxi, p. 341, 1852; 

 Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 227, partim ; Pousargues, Mem, 

 Soc. Zool. France, vol. xi, p. 195, 1898, partim ; Pocock, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1912, p. 574 ; LydehTter, Field, vol, cxx, p. 86, 1912, 

 Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 32, 1913, Ward's Becords of 

 Big Gam, ed. 7, p. 37, 1914. 

 Cervus (Harana) wallichi, Hodgson, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. i, p. 158, 1838, 

 Cervus (Pseudocervus) wallichi, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 



vol. x, pt. 2, p. 914, 1841. 

 Cervus tibetauus, Hodgson, op. cit. vol, xix, p, 460, 1850, 

 Cervus nariyaiius, Hodgson, oj). cit. vol, xx, p, 392, pi, viii, 1851, 

 Cervus affinis, TF, L. Sclater, Cat. Mamia. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 184, 

 1891, partim; Lydekher, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p, 599, fig. 182; 

 nee Hodgson. 

 Shou. 



Typical locality probably the wooded country to the south 

 of the Mansarowar Lake, in the Ntiri-Khorsum district of 

 Tibet, whence the stag to which the typical pair of antlers 

 belonged appears to liave been brought to Maktinath, lying 

 to the northward of Dwalagiri, central Nepal. 



Type a stag in the Vice-Eegal INIeuagerie at Barrakpur, 

 near Calcutta ; now represented only by a pair of shed 

 antlers in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 



Type of Harana and Fseudocervus. 



Somewhat inferior in size to a wapiti (shoulder-height 



about 4 feet 3 or 4 inches), with a very short tail, the 



(normally) o-tined antlers (fig. 20), strongly angulated at the 



origin of the third tine, and above this inclined markedly 



forwards and inwards so that the tips of the fifth tines 



(which are much larger than the fourth) are more or less 



closely approximated ; general colour speckled earthy or pale 



fawn brown, with a larger or smaller white rump-patch, 



including tail and extending downwards posteriorly on to 



back of hams ; * ears long and pointed ; muzzle and chin dark. 



* In Pocock's key to this gi-oup {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1912, p, 574) 

 the white on hind-quarters is stated to extend above root of tail in 

 wallichi and affinis, but not to do so in cashmiriensis ilianglu), and 

 yet further on affinis is stated to come closest to cashmirirnsis in 

 this respect. i • 



