236 Game of FAiropc, \\\ cs: N. Asia (Sc America 



this luTil, with thr antlris in xclyct, whiih tonus the subject of the 

 annexed photogra[''h ; the animal being, ot course, in the tull suninur 

 coat. The stag to w liich the liea.l shown in the next figure belonged was 

 in the winter dress at the time ot its tieath. 



On tlie assumption tliat the so-calleil (.'. iihiiiildrinus is not separable, tlie 

 Pekin sisa is the largest member ol the present group ot deer, the c^ld 

 stags probably attaining a sluudder-beight oi between ^ feet 7 inches and 

 4 teet. \\ hen in the tull summer coat it is a brighter coloured animal 

 than the Mancluirian sika, with very large auti smiiew hat elongated white 

 spots, the general ground-colour o\ the hair being bright chestnut. In 

 young buck^ the head and neck are bluish slate. With the deyelopment 

 ot the winter coat, w hich w hen tully grown is \ery \ow^ and shaggy, the 

 coloiu- graelualK darkens and the spots tend to disappear, till eyentually 

 the general colour becomes ilark imiber-brown, without any trace of 

 spotting in the o\A stags, 'riie hinds tend to retain the spotting to a 

 greater degree. During the change trom the svunmer to the tull w inter 

 coat a complete gradation trom a brilliant chestnut, white-spotted, and 

 sluM-t-haired animal to one with a unitormly umber-brown dress of irreat 

 length may be ntniced. 



The Pekin sika may be distinguished trom the common species by the 

 circumstance that the long hair coyering the gland on the outer side of 

 the lower segment ot the hind-leg is similar in the sununer dress to that 

 n the rest ot the leg, instead oi being pure w bite. In the summer dress 

 the hairs in the centre ot the tuft are t-ri/zled "rey, those surroundina: 

 the centre being of the same tint as the leg generally. Moreoyer, the tip 

 ot the tail appears io be dark instead o\ w bite. For instance, in a stag in 

 winter dress in the British Museum the tail is white, with the upper 

 surface ot the tip black, w bile in a hind in the simimer coat standing 

 alongside it is white, w ith a streak along the upper surface and the tip 

 chestnut. In young stags, as already mentioned, the neck and head are 



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