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Shan from the form inhabiting the Northern Altai and Siberia. Captain 

 Elwes ^ also finds a difference between the antlers of the two forms, remark- 

 ing that those of the deer from the Yenisei and Abakan valleys (which he 

 calls Ci'i'viis asicJtici/s, var. s/7>/rica) have a distinct cup or crown of six or 



Fig. 17. — Skull and Antlers of Siberian Wapiti. Bought at Barnaoul. 

 (Elwes, Journ. Linn. Sue. LoniK, 1899.) 



seven tines branching from the same point on the beam, as in large old 

 specimens of the red deer, quite unlike the antlers of the Thian Shan 

 form, in which there is no tendency to form a cup. Mr. Hagenbeck like- 

 wise states that antlers from the Northern Altai have more tines than those 

 of the Thian Shan wapiti. Under these circumstances the author teels that 



^ Joiin/. Linn. Sor. Lomion — "Zool.'' vol. xx\ii. p. 31 (1S99). 



