514 Mamata OF INDIA. 
I once saw a beautiful head at a railway-station, the property of an 
officer who had just come down from Kashmir, the horns of which 
appeared to me enormous. The owner afterwards travelled with me in the 
train, and gave me his card, which I regret I lost, and, having forgot- 
ten his name, I was never enabled to write to him, either on the subject 
of the horns or to send him some papers he wanted on Asiatic sheep. 
Dr. Leith Adams writes: ‘“ They (the horns) are shed in March, and 
the new horn is not completely formed till the end of October, when 
the rutting season commences, and the loud bellowings of the stags are 
heard all over the mountains.” Of this bellowing Sir Victor Brooke 
says it is just like the voice of the Wapiti stag, which this animal 
closely resembles, and is quite different from that of the red deer. 
“In the former it is a loud squeal, ending in a more gutteral tone; in 
the latter it is a distinct roar, resembling that of a panther.” Sir Victor 
Brooke also points out another peculiarity in this deer: namely, that 
“the second brow antler (bez) in Cervus Cashmirianus, with very rare 
exceptions, exceeds the brow antler in length; a peculiarity by which 
the antlers of this species may be distinguished from those of its allies.” 
The female gives birth in April, and the young are spotted. 
The points on which this stag differs from the mara/ are the longer 
and more pointed head of the latter. 
No. 477. CERVUS AFFINIS veZ WALLICHII. 
The Sikhim Stag (Jerdon’s No. 218). 
NaTIvE NaMe.— Sou, Thibetan. 
Hasitat.—Eastern Himalayas; Thibet in the Choombi valley, on 
the Sikhim side of Thibet. 
DeEscRIPTION,—Jerdon describes this stag as ‘“‘of very large size; 
horns bifurcated at the tip in all specimens yet seen; horns pale, 
smooth, rounded, colour a fine clear grey in winter, with a moderately 
large disk; pale rufous in summer.” Hodgson writes of the horns: 
‘*Pedicles elevate; burrs rather small; two basal antlers, nearly 
straight, so forward in direction as to overshadow the face to 
the end of the nasal; larger than the royal antlers; median or royal 
antlers directed forward and upwards ; beam with a terminal fork, the 
prongs radiating laterally and equally, the inner one longest and 
thinnest.” Jerdon adds: ‘“‘ Compared with the Kashmir stag this one 
has the beam still more bent at the origin of the median tine, and thus 
more removed from C. edaphus, and like C. Wallichii (C. Cashmirianus). 
The second basal tine or bez antler is generally present, even in the 
second pair of horns assumed. Moreover the simple bifurcation of the 
crown mentioned above is a still more characteristic point of difference 
both from the Kashmir davasingha and the stag of Europe. 
