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THE FAUNA OF THE CHINESE PROVINCE 



deer is chestnut, brilliantly spotted with white in summer, but uniformly dark 

 brown in winter. The Manchurian sika (G. sica manchuricus) is a smaller animal, 

 of which the still smaller typical race (G sica) is a native of Japan. Another 

 species (C. taevanus) is found in Formosa. A race of the sambar (G. unicolor 

 dejeani) is found in Sze-chuan. 



The most remarkable of 

 the deer of this area is, 

 however, the large Pere 

 David's milou deer (Elajrfi- 

 urus davidianus), a species 

 formerly kept in confinement 

 in the Imperial Park at Pekin, 

 but now represented only by 

 a herd in the Duke of Bed- 

 ford's park at Woburn. The 

 true habitat of this species is 

 not certainly known, although 

 it is suggested that it came 



from 



Kashgaria. 



The 



car- 

 riage is more like that of a 

 mule than a red deer (which 

 the species equals in size), the 

 general colour of the long 

 hair is reddish dun, and the 

 antlers of the stags are of an 

 altogether peculiar type, hav- 

 ing a very long back tine. 

 The Siberian roe (Capreolus 

 pygargus) ranges from the 

 Altai to Manchuria, the latter 

 country being the home of a 

 second species (G. bedfordi). 

 Muntjacs are represented 

 in the area by the Sze-chuan 

 Ger vulus lachrymans, to- 

 gether with G sclateri, G. 

 bridgemani, and C. reevesi, of 

 central and western China. 

 Their allies, the tufted deer, 



are absolutely characteristic of the tract. Of the latter, Michie's tufted deer 

 (Elaphodus mitchianus), which is common along the reedy rivers of eastern 

 China, is blackish grey in colour, the lower half of each hair being white and 

 the upper half black. Another species, the Sze-chuan tufted deer (E. cephalo- 

 phus), inhabits Sze-chuan and Kan-su, and a third kind is found in the 

 mountains of central China. The swamps of the Yang-tsi form the haunts 

 of the little Chinese water-deer {Hydropotes, or Hydrelaphus, inermis), an 





pere David's deer 



