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Head of Pekin Sika. 
The PEKIN SIKA or DYBOWSKI’S DEER (Cervus [Pseudaxis] hortulorum). 
In addition to its larger size (between 3 feet 7 inches and 4 feet 
at the shoulder), this species is distinguished from the Manchurian sika 
by the hairs covering the gland on the hind cannon-bone being of the 
same colour asthe rest of the coat insummer and only slightly grizzled 
in winter, and by the tip of the tail being apparently white. The head 
and neck are bluish grey, and in immature animals spots persist in 
the winter coat, although these disappear completely at this season in 
fully adult bucks, in which the coat becomes very long and shaggy, 
especially on the throat and neck. Hinds are more brightly coloured 
in winter than the stags, and retain distinct spotting. This deer was 
named C. hortulorum by Consul Swinhoe from an immature buck and 
doe taken at the sack of the Summer Palace, Pekin, and was afterwards 
obtained in the wild state in the Ussuri district of North-eastern 
Manchuria, when it received the name of C. dybowskiz. In the typical 
Manchurian race (C. hortulorum typicus) there is no dark line down 
the back ; but this is present in the smaller southern race (C. hortulorum 
kopscht) of the Yang-tsi valley. 
