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CERVID.E. 



Size large. In males the hair on the ridge of the neck is long, 

 thick, and bushy, and the hair of the lower neck long and shaggy. 

 Muffle small. Horns with brow, bez, and tres or royal tines, and 

 usually in adults each horn with five points, sometimes with more. 

 The tines, with rare exceptions, are undivided. The bez or second 

 tine, as a rule, considerably exceeds the brow or first tine in length. 



Colour brown or brownish ash, or dark liver-colour ; a whitish 

 caudal disk surrounding the tail, contrasting strongly with the 

 dark border that merges into the body-colour ; sides and limbs 



Fig. 174. Skull and horns of Cervus cashmirianus. 



paler ; lips and chin white, ears whitish. In summer the fur is 

 brighter and more rufous, the lower parts albescent, the belly in 

 the male dark brown. Young fawns are spotted, the markings 

 being retained, according to Adams, till the third or fourth 

 year. 



In Sclater's figure, from an animal in the Zoological Gardens, 

 there is no caudal disk ; the tail is dark brown above, pale below, 

 and only the buttocks pale rufous. Whether this is due to varia- 

 tion in colouring or to age it is impossible to say, but a skin from 

 the Zoological Gardens, now in the British Museum, agrees with 

 the figure. 



