EASTERN RED DEER 



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The typical locality of the maral is the Caspian provinces of 

 Northern Persia, whence it extends into the Crimea, and probably 

 Asia Minor, and so on into Transcaucasia, the Caucasus, probably 

 Circassia, and the Galician Carpathians. In the Marmaros district of 

 the Hungarian Carpathians there occurs, as stated above, a stunted 

 form of maral, known as the Polish stag, believed to be an immigrant 

 from Galicia. In the Bukovina district of the Galician Carpathians 

 sportsmen recognise a large grey stag in the plains (apparently the 

 true maral) and a smaller and darker mountain race (C. claphus mon- 

 tanus}. It is noteworthy that specimens from the Caucasus have 

 shorter faces than those from Northern Persia, and thus approximate 

 to the western types. Sportsmen prefer to call this race the Hungarian 

 red deer ; this, however, is scarcely legitimate, as Hungary is not the 

 typical locality. (For other specimens, see pp. 27 et seg.} 



Owner. 



H.R.H. the Duke of Saxe- 

 Coburg and Gotha. 



British Museum (Lord A. 

 Hay). 



St. George Littledale. 



Do. 



Do. 



British Museum. 

 F. E. Whittall. 

 S. H. Whitbread. 

 Grand Duke Mikhael. 

 Prince E. Demidoff. 

 The Maclaine of Lochbuie. 



Sir Edmund G. Loder, 



Bart. 

 Prince E. Demidoff. 



H. O. Whittall. 

 Duke of Bedford. 

 F. W. Baker. 



British Museum (C. G. 

 Danford). 



