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forms essentially to the wapiti type, the fourth tine being much enlarged 

 and situated in the same vertical plane as the fifth and succeeding tines 

 (when any of the latter are developed) ; such plane being parallel, or nearly 

 so, to the middle line of the head. The antlers appear, however, in general 

 to be decidedly smaller (shorter) in proportion to the size ot the animal 

 than is the case in either the American, the Thian Shan, or the Siberian 

 wapiti ; and in immature specimens, at any rate, the fourth tine does not 



Fig. 20. — Manchurian Wapiti Hind. From a photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. 



appear to be so long and stout in proportion to those below it as in the 

 former. In fully adult specimens (Fig. 19), however, the relatively large 

 size of this tine becomes more conspicuous, although even then it is less 

 marked than in the other forms. Again, as shown in Fig. 21, the portion 

 of the antler above the fourth tine, even in more fully mature specimens, 

 is much smaller than in the other races of the wapiti. A similar feature 

 was, indeed, at one time said to be distinctive of the West American 

 wapiti, and this statement is referred to in Deer of' All Lands ; but 



