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although the feature occurs in a pair of antlers of that race presented to 

 the British Museum hy Captain Elwes, it is not, according to Dr. D. G. 

 Elliot, a constant feature. A tendency to hifurcation in the fourth tine 

 (as shown in the accompanying figure) may he a peculiarity of this 

 species. In the five-tined antlers of sub-adult stags the fourth and fifth 

 tines curve towards one another at their extremities so as to present a 



Fig. 2 1. — Ainlcrs of Maiicluirian Wapiti. Collected by Hcrr Dorrics in the Sutschan \'alley, 

 Manchuria. (Elwcs, J'.inn. Linn. Soc, 1899.) 



curious similarity to crabs' claws ; this feature being less noticeable in those 

 of the Altai and American wapitis. 



In its extremely short tail this deer resembles other forms ot the 

 wapiti and difl^ers from the red deer. It is likewise extremely wapiti- 

 like when in the winter dress, the stags then developing a long blackish 

 mane, and the under-parts being much darker than the back, which varies 

 in colour from whitish to brownish grey, with a very large straw-coloured 

 or orange rump-patcli. In the summer, however, this mane completely 

 disappears, and the general colour, at least in animals of from three to five 



