WAPITT 39 
the coat is uniformly dark brown, with the hairs, which are remarkable 
for their coarse and brittle nature, minutely speckled. The antlers are 
smooth and white nearly throughout. 
The Tibetan plateau, north of Lhasa, is the home of this fine 
species of deer, which was originally described by the late Colonel 
Przewalski under the scientific name given above. Subsequently two 
examples were obtained by Dr. W. G. Thorold, to the north-east’ of 
Lhasa, at an elevation of between 13,000 and 14,000 feet, which, 
under the impression that they indicated a new species, were named 
C. thoroldi by Dr. W. T. Blanford. 
Length = = hed 
on out- Circum- Tip to idest : ye 
side ference. Tip. inside. Points. Locality. Owner. 
curve, 
47 bas ace os ae N. of Lhasa . . British Museum. 
384 42 37 aT 5+4 Central Tibet . - Hon. Walter Rothschild. 
38 54 28 31 5+5 Do. . British Museum. 
—36 44 32 32 5+5 ry. Indian Museum. 
- Owner’s measurements. 
1 Bought at Darjiling, thither brought by Tibetans. 
The WAPITI DEER (Cervus canadensis). 
Wapiti are large deer of the red deer group, easy of recognition 
by the form of their antlers, which are of great size, carrying, when 
fully developed, more than five tines, curving backwards, and being 
much flattened in the upper half. They always have the bez-tine 
developed, but their most characteristic feature is the great size of the 
fourth, tine, which is larger than either of the others, and, with the fifth, 
which is also long, forms a nearly regular fork ; the fourth, fifth, and 
sixth tines being situated almost in the plane of the portion of the 
beam immediately below them, so that they more or less completely 
hide one another when viewed from the front aspect. The brow-tine 
rises close to the burr, and is nearly as long as the bez. The tail is 
extremely short ; the light rump-patch is very large and includes the 
tail ; the neck and under-parts are blackish; and the general colour of 
the summer coat is yellowish brown on the upper-parts. 
Wapiti (known in America as elk) range from North America to 
North-Eastern and Central Asia; the typical form being the Rocky 
Mountain wapiti. The height at the shoulder is about 5 feet 4 inches, 
and the,weight from 700 to 1000 lbs. 
