CERVID^E 139 



10. 5. 14. 1. Two detached antlers. Sze-chuan border 

 of Tibet ; collected by the Eev. W. N. Fergusson. Type. 



Presented by J. Rowland Ward, Esq., 1910. 



X.VII. CERVUS YARKANDENSIS. 



Ccrvus cashmirianus yarkandensis, Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 

 p. 117; Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, p. 88, 1898. 



Cervns yarkandensis, Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 447 ; 

 Lydekker, ibid. 1896, p. 933, Game Animals of India, etc.* 

 p. 215, 1907, Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 34, 1913; 

 Pousargues, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vol. xi, p. 202, 1898, 

 partim ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 35, 1910, ed. 7, 

 p. 47, 1914. 



Typical locality Maralbashi Forest, Eastern Turkestan ; 

 the range includes the Tarim Valley. 



A rufous-fawn deer, with a large and well-defined orange 

 rump-patch, which includes the tail, and usually five-tined 

 antlers, which lack the lateral compression and large fourth 

 tine of those of the canadensis group, and have the terminal 

 fork placed at right angles to the middle line of the head, 

 so as to look directly forwards, and the fifth tine a little 

 inclined inwards, the beam not showing any marked angula- 

 tion at the origin of the third tine. By the development of 

 a third snag to the terminal fork (crown) the antlers may 

 become 6-tined, as in fig. 25. 



79. 11. 21. 252. Skin, young. Yarkand. 



Transferred from India Museum, 1879. 



89. 6. 8. 3. Skull and antlers. Maralbashi Forest; 

 collected by Rev. H. Lansdell. Purchased, 1889. 



91. 8. 7. 4. Skull and antlers. Same locality; collected 

 by Mr. A. Dalgliesh. Type ; figured by Blanford, loc. cit. 

 Length of antlers along outer curve 35 and 34 inches ; basal 

 girth 6| inches. Presented by A. 0. Hume, Esq., C.B., 1891. 



91. 8. 7. 5. Frontlet and antlers. Same locality and 

 collector. Same history. 



92. 3. 30. 1. Skin. Tarim Valley, Eastern Turkestan. 

 Mentioned by Blanford, loc. cit. 



Presented by Major C. S. Cumberland, 1892. 



* Name spelt, intentionally, yarcandcnsis. 



