32 CATALOGUE OF THE HUME BEQUEST 



FAMILY CERVID^E. 

 THE SHOU. 



CERVUS WALLICHI. 



Cervus wallichii, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, ed. 4, vol. vi, p. 89, 1835 ; 

 Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1912, p. 574 ; Lydekker, Field, vol. cxx, 

 p. 860, 1912. 



Five Central Asian deer, namely, C. wallichi, from the 

 neighbourhood of the Mansarowar Lake, C. affinis, of the 

 Chumbi Valley and Bhutan, C. cashmirianus, of Kashmir, 

 C. macneilli, of Sze-chuan, and C. kansuensis, of Kan-su, and 

 probably Yun-nan, constitute a group of the typical section 

 of the genus, distinct from the red deer group (C. elaphus) 

 on the one hand, and the wapiti group (C. canadensis) on the 

 other. They are provisionally allowed specific rank by 

 Mr. Pocock, but the present writer has given reasons for 

 regarding affinis as a local race of wallichi, and kansuensis as 

 a race of macneilli, whilst cashmirianus represents by itself 

 a third species. 



The present species, in this wider sense, is characterised, 

 in addition to the peculiar form of the antlers,* by the 

 extension of the white on the back of the thighs above the 

 root of the tail to form a rump-patch, with little or no 

 blackish brown in front of the same. 



Sikhim, or True, Shou. 

 Cervus walliehi afflnis. 



Cervus affinis, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. x, p. 721, 

 1841 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 537, 1891 ; 

 Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, p. 88, 1898, Game Animals of 

 India, etc. p. 215, 1907 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. (3, 

 p. 37, 1910 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1912, p. 572. 



Distinguished from the Mansarowar C. wallichi wallichi 

 by the much smaller size of the white rump-patch, which is 



* In the specimen of the typical -wallichi now living in the 

 Zoological Society's Gardens, the antlers in September appeared to 

 be of the general type of those of the Sikhim shou. 



