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 XVIII. CERVUS WALLICHI. 



Cervus wallichi, Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 1812 (teste Pouaarguex), 



ed. 3, vol. iv, p. 504, 1825, ed. 4, vol. vi, p. 89, 1835 ; F. Cuvier, 



Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. ii, livr. xxxix, pi. 225 (356), 1823; 



H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 103, pi. ix, 1827 ; 



J. B. Fischer, Synop. Mamm. p. 452, 1829 ; Jardine, Naturalist's 



Libr., Mamm. vol. iii, p. 161, pi. x, 1835; Blyth, Journ. Asiat. 



Soc. Bengal, vol. x, pt. 2, p. 745, 1841, vol. xxi, p. 341, 1852; 



Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 227, partim ; Pousargues, Mem. 



Soc. Zool. France, vol. xi, p. 195, 1898, partim ; Pocock, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1912, p. 574 ; LydeTcJcer, Field, vol. cxx, p. 86, 1912, 



Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 32, 1913, Ward's Records of 



Big Gam, ed. 7, p. 37, 1914. 



Cervus (Harana) wallichi, Hodgson, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. i, p. 158, 1838. 

 Cervus (Pseudocervus) wallichi, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 



vol. x, pt. 2, p. 914, 1841. 



Cervus tibetanus, Hodgson, op. cit. vol. xix, p. 460, 1850. 

 Cervus nariyanus, Hodgson, op. cit. vol. xx, p. 392, pi. viii, 1851. 

 Cervus affinis, W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. ii, p. 184, 



1891, partim; LydehJcer, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 599, fig. 182; 



nee Hodgson. 

 SHOU. 



Typical locality probably the wooded country to the south 

 of the Mansarowar Lake, in the Nari-Khorsum district of 

 Tibet, whence the stag to which the typical pair of antlers 

 belonged appears to have been brought to Maktinath, lying 

 to the northward of Dwalagiri, central Nepal. 



Type a stag in the Vice-Eegal Menagerie at Barrakpur, 

 near Calcutta ; now represented only by a pair of shed 

 antlers in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Type of Harana and Pseudocervus. 



Somewhat inferior in size to a wapiti (shoulder-height 

 about 4 feet 3 or 4 inches), with a very short tail, the 

 (normally) 5-tined antlers (fig. 26), strongly angulated at the 

 origin of the third tine, and above this inclined markedly 

 forwards and inwards so that the tips of the fifth tines 

 (which are much larger than the fourth) are more or less 

 closely approximated ; general colour speckled earthy or pale 

 fawn brown, with a larger or smaller white rump-patch, 

 including tail and extending downwards posteriorly on to 

 back of hams ; * ears long and pointed ; muzzle and chin dark. 



* In Pocock's key to this group (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1912, p. 574) 

 the white on hind-quarters is stated to extend above root of tail in 

 wallichi and affinis, but not to do so in cashmiriensis (hanglu), and 

 yet further on affinis is stated to come closest to cashmiriensis in 

 this respect. 



