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of the Japanese group ; and Dr. Percy Kendall possesses a pair from Kobe, 

 which is situated near the centre of the middle island. As a sika also occurs 

 in Formosa, and the group is apparently represented in the Liu-Kiu Islands, 

 it would seem probable that the typical species is found throughout the 

 Japanese group of islands. 



The Japanese sika was introduced many years ago by Viscount Powers- 

 court into his park in Ireland ; and it is now also a denizen of the Duke of 

 Bedford's park at Woburn Abbey. As might have been expected, when 

 the climate of the northernmost of its native islands is taken into considera- 

 tion, it does not suffer from the inclemency of an English winter, and it 

 might without much difficulty become thoroughly naturalised in British 

 parks and deer forests. A specimen in the winter coat, presented by the 

 Hon. R. A. Ward, is exhibited in the British Museum. 



THE MANCHURIAN SIKA 



(Cervi/s sicci ?nanchur'iciis) 



This animal, as already said, cannot be regarded as anything more than 

 a large continental race of the common sika, there being apparently a 

 gradation in point of size from the typical Japanese race to the large 

 Manchurian animal, which probably attains a shoulder-height of between 

 3 feet 3 inches and 3 feet 5 inches. 



The type ot this race is a stag forwarded by the late Consul Swinhoe 

 from Manchuria to the London Zoological Gardens in 1864, and described 

 by him in the same year as a distinct species. It is now mounted in the 

 Museum at Paris. A fine stag in the summer dress was presented to the 

 British Museum by the Duke of Bedford a few years ago, and is now 

 exhibited in the lower mammal gallery.^ The coloration is essentially the 



' This is the specimen meiuioncd on p. 115 of Deer of All L.tiiih as being at Woburn Abbey. 



