38 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
inhabits the upper part of the Chumbi valley and some of the neigh- 
bouring valleys in Bhutan. An identical or nearly allied deer is also 
found in the Tsan-po basin, near Lhasa (see the /ze/d, October 27, 1906). 
Length _ : n 
Pa ee ORG Moai Get arate Owner 
curve. 
55e 63 174 402 7+6 Tibetan Frontier . A. O. Hume. (See _ illus- 
tration. ) 
55t 6g 264 44 5+5 Do. . British Museum (B. H. Hodg- 
son), 
548 68 218 374 5+5 Do. . British Museum (Dr. Camp- 
bell). 
534 62 30 45¢ 4+5 Do. . British Museum (Hume Col- 
lection). 
—524 7 183 38 5+5 Do. . Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 
52 8 aK ai sii Do. . Hon. Walter Rothschild. 
50 64 213 354 8+6 Do. . H. J. Elwes. 
494 7 38 453 5+5 Do. . Col. J. Biddulph. 
-48 6 30 424 5+5 Chumbi Valley. . Lord Curzon. 
—48 62 30? 1309 5+5 Tibetan Frontier SEL mleeblwes. 
48 63 17 344 64+5 Do. . H.R.H. the Duc d'Orléans. 
47% 52 B02 40% 5+5 Do. . British Museum. 
—43 a: se a 3 Chumbi Valley . . Indian Museum. 
41 64 de Ze 6+4 ? Duke of Bedford. 
397 53 20 314 5+5 ? E. P. Tennant. 
— Owner’s measurements. 
1 Spread. 
¢ 
THOROLD’S DEER (Cervus albirostris). 
Thorold’s deer is of the same approximate dimensions as the 
hangul, from which it is readily distinguished by the more flattened 
antlers, which have no bez-tine, and do not curve inwards, but are 
suddenly bent backwards at the point of origin of the trez; the total 
number of points being either five or four. Equally distinctive are the 
pure white muzzle and chin, the white inner surface of the ears; the 
reversal of the hair on the middle of the back, so as to form a kind of 
hump on the withers with the points of the hairs directed towards the 
neck ; the low position and large size of the gland-tuft on the hind 
cannon-bone ; and the shortness of the tail, which is included in the 
very large straw-coloured area of the buttocks. The general colour of 
