2i8 Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America 



and tlie t>llcn of the Caucasus arc really nothiiiL; more than local modifica- 

 tions of the red deer, and have nothing in common with the wapiti. 

 Moreover, these two do differ from one another to a certain extent, hut so 

 slightly that it seems hest to regard them as helonging to a single form. 



Imc. .1^9. — Profile View of two (r Caspian; Red Deer Heads. Killed on the 

 estate of Prince Henry of Liechtenstein in the Carpatliians. 



Again, these deer seem so closely connected with the red deer ot Western 

 Europe hy means of the Carpathian stag, that they can scarcely be con- 

 sidered entitled to rank as a species by themselves, but should rather be 

 looked upon as a local race, or sub-species, of the retl deer. Probably, 

 indeed, there is a complete gradation from the Persian to the Scandinavian 



