SHOU OR SIKHIM STAG 



5' 



stag inhabits the upper part of the Chumbi valley and some of the 

 neighbouring valleys in Bhutan. An identical or nearly allied deer is 

 also found in the Tsan-pu basin, near Lhasa (see the Field, October 27, 

 1906). 



Length 

 on out- 

 side 

 curve. 



553 



53i 



52 

 50 



-48 



-48 

 48 

 47! 



-43 



39* 



Circum- Tip to Widest D . .. 



ference. Tip. inside. Polnts ' Locality. 



6* 



17* 



3 

 I Si 



38 

 30 



30V 

 17 



40:3 



44 



37i 



38 



'39 



34i 



7 + 6 Tibetan Frontier 



5 + 5 



Owner. 



A. O. Hume. (See illus- 

 tration.) 



P.ritish Museum (B. H. Hodg- 

 son). 



British Museum (Dr. Camp- 

 bell). 



British Museum (Hume Col- 

 lection). 



Sir Edmund G. Locler, Bart. 



Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



Lieut. -Col. H. A. Iggulden. 



Col. J. Biddulph. 



Lord Curzon. 



H. J. Elwes. 



1 1. R.I I. le Due d 1 Orleans. 



British Museum. 



Indian Museum. 



Duke of Bedford. 



E. 1'. Tennant. 



- Owner's measurements. 

 1 Spread. 



THOROLD'S DEER (Cervus albirostris). 



Thorold's deer is of the same approximate dimensions as the 

 hangul, from which it is readily distinguished by the more flattened 

 antlers, which have no bez-tine, and do not curve inwards, but are 

 suddenly bent backwards at the point of origin of the trez ; the total 

 number of points being either five or four. Equally distinctive is the 

 pure white muzzle and chin, the white inner surface of the ears, the 

 reversal of the hair on the middle of the back, so as to form a kind of 

 hump on the withers with the points of the hairs directed towards the 



