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of all sorts, there came to us a whole skin, skull and horns of a full grown male 

 Takin. It was shot by Mr. Mitchell in the province of Szechuan, western 

 China ; which is many days hard travel heyond Chungking, which is 1500 miles 

 up the Yengtse-Kiang River. 



Judging from the skin before us, this animal is about the size of a Sable 

 Antelope (Hippotragus niger) ; and its hair is straight, close and antelope- 

 like. Budorcas taxicolor is distinguished by the redness of its pelage, but B. t. 

 initchelli may be described as a yellowish-gray animal, with rufus shoulders, a 

 black or dark dorsal stripe, and a black face-patch. Mr. Mitchell says that 

 in Szechuan both the red and the gray Takin are found, the former usually 

 being found in small herds, the latter solitary. The type of the new subspecies 

 is believed to be by this date in the British Museum of Natural History at 

 South Kensington. 



Unfortunately, at this moment, it is a practical impossibility to present 

 an illustration of this unique gift that would adequately portray it. As soon 

 as the head is mounted, however, the skin will be displayed beneath it, and both 

 will then be fit subjects for the camera. 



GIFTS OF FERDINAND KAEGEBEHN 



BECAUSE of Mr. Kaegebehn's special interest in the Wapiti group of the 

 round-horned deer, in the last years of the Arizona Wapiti of the Santa 

 Catalina Mountains he secured a fine pair of antlers representing that 

 species. Although living as late as 1901, the species is now believed to be 

 (mite extinct; and what is still worse, there now appear to be in existence only 

 three pairs of its antlers, of which the gift of Mr. Kaegebehn is one. Our 

 specimen was collected in 1884 by F. W. Heyne, Superintendent of the 

 Arizona Copper Prince Mines, of Bisbee, Arizona. We are fortunate in 

 securing this rare and zoologically valuable specimen of an important Ameri- 

 can species that was not even described until it was "already on the verge of 

 extinction."* It appears as Fig. 2 in Plate XVI, and its measurements are 

 as follows : Length on curve, left 40f inches ; right 37} inches ; outside spread 43 

 inches; circumference of burr, 9j inches, and above burr 9 inches. It will be 



* E. W. Nelson, in BULLETIN of the American Museum of Natural History, 1902. 



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