Game Animals of India, etc. 



display indications of affinity with the sika deer, from 

 which it may indicate a connecting link towards wapiti. 

 The antlers of the stags are smooth and nearly white. 

 Those of the mounted specimen in the British Museum 

 have a length of 38 inches along the outer curve ; but 

 these dimensions are much exceeded by a pair brought 

 home after the Tibet expedition, which measure 47 

 inches. 



This deer was first described by Col. Przewalski ; 

 the two specimens subsequently obtained by Dr. W. 

 G. Thorold in the neighbourhood of Lhasa being named 

 C. thoroldiy under the impression that they belonged to 

 a new species. The two examples in question were 

 killed at a spot about 200 miles to the north-east of 

 Lhasa, at an approximate elevation of about 13,500 

 feet above sea-level. They were found in snow among 

 brushwood growing just above the upper limit of 

 forest. 



Local races of wapiti {Cervus canadensis) occurs in 

 Turkestan, the Altai, the Thian Shan, and Manchuria 

 and Amurland ; the Manchurian wapiti {Cervus 

 canadensis xanthopygus\ serving in some degree to 

 connect red-deer and wapiti. With a short wapiti-like 

 tail, and antlers of the wapiti-like type, although 

 smaller in proportion to the head, and with an inferior 

 development of the fourth tine, this deer turns bright 

 foxy red in summer. When the antlers are five-tined 

 they may be distinguished from those of the hangul 

 and shou by the terminal fork being parallel to the 

 axis of the head. Neither of these deer, nor any of 

 the sika deer, are, however, met with in the area treated 

 of in this volume. 



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