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RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Antlers of Mesopotamia!! Fallow Deer, from a specimen in the British Museum. 



MESOPOTAMIAN FALLOW DEER (Cervus mesopotamicus). 



Larger and brighter coloured than the common fallow deer, with 

 the spots near the middle of the back tending to form longitudinal stripes, 

 and the tail wholly white. Antlers of a totally different type, being 

 somewhat expanded at the origin of the trez-tine (which is large, and 

 situated some distance above the short brow-tine), but at the summit 

 only moderately flattened, and breaking up on the hinder border into 

 several snags. Weight about 24 stone, clean (H. E. Whittall). 



Distribution. The mountains of Luristan in Mesopotamian Persia. 



Length 



on out- Circum- Tip to Spread r> . 

 side ference. Tip. inside. FolntS ' 



curve. 

 -36* 4l 



-29 



3 

 5 



Tip. 



i6| ... 12 + 15 



30| 24^ 10+11 



14^ ... 9 + 7 



14 ... 6 + 5 



Width 

 of Palm. 



51 

 Si 



Locality. 



Owner. 



Karabogha, Asia F. E. Whittall. 



Minor 

 Asia Minor . . Do. 



Do. . . Paris Museum 



(Abbe David). 

 Luristan Mountains Sir Edmund G.Loder, Bart. 



