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RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Head of Peking Sika, from a specimen at Woburn Abbey. 



PEKING SIKA (Cervus hortulonun). 



In addition to its larger size (between 3 feet 7 inches and 4 feet at 

 the shoulder), this species is distinguished from the Manchurian sika by 

 the hairs covering the gland on the hind cannon-bone being of the 

 same colour as the rest of the coat in summer and only slightly 

 grizzled in winter, and by the tip of the tail being apparently white. 

 The head and neck are bluish gray, and in immature animals spots 

 persist in the winter coat, although these disappear completely at this 

 season in fully adult bucks, whose coats become very long and shaggy, 

 especially on the throat and neck. Hinds are more brightly coloured 

 in winter than the stags, and retain distinct spotting. This deer was 

 first named by the late Consul Swinhoe from an immature buck and 

 doe taken at the sack of the Summer Palace, Peking, and was afterwards 



