The Shou, or Sikhim Stag 



number of skulls and horns at various places between 

 our boundary on the Talep Pass and Lhasa. I came 

 to the conclusion that these deer are not found to the 



Fig. 35. — Skull and Antlers of Shou Stag, from a specimen in the possession of 

 Mr. A. O. Hume. 



west of a line drawn north and south between Shigatse 

 and the northern point of Sikhim. They are never 

 found in Sikhim itself, as the climate there is too damp, 

 though one or two may possibly at times have crossed 

 the boundary. There are a fair number in the Chumbi 



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