Game Animals of India, etc. 



THE HANGUL, OR KASHMIR STAG 



{Cervus cashmirianus) 



Native Names. — Hangul^ Honglu (male), Minyamar 

 (female), Kashmiri ; Barasingha^ Hindustani 



(Plate vi, fig. i) 



From other representatives of the typical ruminants 

 the majority of the deer tribe are distinguished by the 

 cranial appendages of the males taking the form of 

 antlers, which are periodically shed and again renewed, 

 and in most Asiatic species are more or less branched. 

 In no deer dealt with in the present volume are the 

 hinds normally provided with antlers ; while in the 

 few species in which these appendages are lacking in 

 both sexes, the bucks are provided with long sabre-like 

 upper tusks projecting below the margin of the lip. 

 In the latter respect these uncrowned species resemble 

 chevrotains, or mouse-deer, from which, however, they 

 are distinguished by important anatomical features. 

 The mode of replacement and growth of antlers, as 

 well as their structural difference from horns properly 

 so called, have so often been described, that a repetition 

 on this occasion is unnecessary. It may be observed, 

 however, that in the species in which they eventually 

 attain a more or less complex development, the antlers 

 are more simple in the young than in the adult ; their 

 complexity increasing year by year till a certain period 

 of life, after which they commence to degenerate, or 

 " go back." 



Most deer are characterised by the marked difference 

 between the colour of the winter and summer coats ; 

 the general tone of the former being some shade 

 of grey or brown, while that of the latter is 

 chestnut or rufous. Among species exhibiting this 

 colour -change in great perfection are the American 



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