6o Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America 



home, as well as notes on the animal itselt ; and farther information with 

 regard to the domesticated herds kept in the Altai has been furnished by 

 Prince Demidoff in his work entitled After Wild Sheep in the Altai an, I 

 Mongolia, published in 1900. Still more recently, Messrs J. V. Phelps and 

 P. Church have brought home eleven magnificent pairs of antlers of this 

 wapiti, of which the five finest are shown in the accompanying photo- 

 gravures. Unfortunately the skins obtained at the same time were so 

 damaged in transit that an entire specimen of the animal could not be 

 set up. Many fine examples of this deer have, however, been kept in 

 captivity in the Duke of Bedford's park at Woburn Abbey, so that its 

 appearance in the living state is now well known. 



Since a great deal of confusion has arisen with regard to what is the 

 proper name for this deer, a few words are advisable on the subject. 

 Severtzofi\, who considered the name C. maral as a synonym of C. wapiti^ 

 which is itself equivalent to C. canadensis^ appears at first to have been dis- 

 posed to call the Asiatic animal C canadensis, var. asiatica. But, abandoning 

 this title, he finally wrote as follows,^ viz. — 



Cervus maral [C. ivapiti). 

 A. Var. americana. B. Var. asiatica. 



a. canadensis. a. sihirica. 



h. californica. b. sojigarica. 



" Var. songarica. These are the Thian Shan stags, which are larger 

 than the Siberian ones, and darker-coloured in winter, being brownish 

 grey, and not of a whitish colour ; and, finally, the stems and branches 

 of the horns of Thian Shan specimens are larger and thicker." 



According to modern rules of nomenclature, it is quite clear that the 

 name sibirica, which apparently applies to the stags of the Northern Altai, 



' Sec Anil. Mug. Nut. Hist, scries 4, vol. xviii. p. 386 (1876). 



