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They carry ten points on one side and eleven on the other. In length 

 they measure 29 inches along the outer curve ; their basal girth is 

 4^T inches, the tip-to-tip interval 30.^ inches, and the width of the palma- 

 tion 5 A inches. 



The type of this deer was obtained in the mountains ot Luristan, 

 Mesopotamian Persia, and Mr. Whittall's specimens indicate that it extends 

 into the neighbouring district of Kurdistan, where its existence is also 

 indicated by the bas-relief referred to above. Nothing is known with 

 regard to its habits. 



THE SZECHUEN SAMBAR 



[CtTii/s i/iiico/or cicjcam) 



The only represent.itive of the Oriental group of rusine deer (see Great 

 ivui Snia// Cjiunc of Iiid'ui^ i'h\) found within the area treated ot in the 

 present volume is a large variety of the sambar inhabiting the province ot 

 Szechuen, in North-Western China, which was described by M. E. de 

 Pousargues in the Bulktin of the Paris Museum^ under the name of Rusa 

 dcjcdiii. In size it appears to be fully equal to the typical Indian sambar, 

 but has the whitish legs of the Formosan race of that species. In the type 

 specimen the antlers measure 30^ inches in length, with a basal girth ot 

 5.1 inches. A remarkably tine and massive pair of antlers of the Szechuen 

 sambar are preserved in the collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn 

 Abbey. In addition to their great massiveness, these antlers are noticeable 

 tor the number ot " sports," or supernumerary points, arising near the 

 places of origin of the main tines. 



