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years of age, becomes bright foxy red. By Dr. Bolau the colour at this 

 season is described as light brown. As a rule, the light-coloured rump- 

 patch is as conspicuous in the summer as in the winter dress, but it was 

 completely absent in the type specimen of Cerviis hcdfordiamis when in the 

 early summer garb. This is shown in plate iii. ot Deer of All Lands. 

 The same individual has also been figured by the present writer, in the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1896, in both the summer and 



Fig. 22. — Another Pair ot Antlers ot the Manchurian Wapiti. From the same locality 



as the preceding. (Elwes, cp c'lt.) 



the winter dress ; and a reference to the plates in question will show the 

 remarkable difference in the coloration of this deer at the two seasons. 

 Monsieur de Pousargues is of opinion that the Manchurian wapiti is a 

 much smaller animal than the Altai wapiti, but this is scarcely borne out 

 by the herd now living at Woburn Abbey ; and the hind shown in the 

 photograph on page ji was a very large deer. 



The strongly marked rufous coloration of this deer when in the 

 summer dress might be considered an objection against regarding it as a 



