538 CEBYID.E. 



The animal to the figure of which, byDuvaucel, Cuvier gave the 

 uame of C. valUchii, lived in the Barrackpore menagerie, and was 

 said to have been brought from Muktiuath near Mount Dwalagiri 

 in Nepal (Hardwieke, Tr. L. S. xiv, p. 581). This place is as 

 nearly as possible halfway between the localities inhabited by 

 C. cashmirianns and C. ajfinis respectively. It is difficult to 

 believe that any large deer living in Northern Nepal could have 

 escaped the knowledge of Hodgson's collectors. The shed horns 

 of the type of G. ivallkhii are preserved in Calcutta, and have been 

 figured (J. A. S. B. x, p. 750, pi., fig. 7) ; they are probably, 

 according to AV. Sclater, of the third year, but whether they agree 

 better with those of C. cashmirianus, or O, affinis, of the stag of 

 Eastern Turkestan, or of any other species, is undecided. The 

 assigned locality must be regarded as very doubtful, and the name 

 must remain in abeyance for the present. C. narayanus of Hodgson 

 (J. A. S. B. XX, p. 392, pi. viii), founded on a single horn said to 

 have been brought from Ladak, was probably a young C. afflnis. 

 No importance need be attached to the supposed locality ; no stag 

 is found in Ladak. 



Eecently (J. A. S. B. Iviii, pt. 2, p. 186, pi. xi) W. L. Sclater 

 has described a deer's dried head (with the skin) and horns pur- 

 chased iu the Darjiling bazaar, and has shown that they agree best 

 with a stag called Cervus di/howsl-ii by Taczanowski (P. Z. S. 1876, 

 p. 123), and found in the Ussuri country, N.E. Manchuria, not 

 far from Vladivostok. Additional evidence may be a\^'aited before 

 supposing that G. dyhowshii extends to Tibet. It belongs to the 

 Pseudaxine group, without a bez tine and usually with four points 

 on each horn. 



A fine elaphine stag inhabits the forests near the rivers east of 

 Ytirkand and Kashgarh, and appears to be nearly allied to the 

 Western Asiatic deer known as G. maral, or perhaps identical 

 with it. The great stag of the Thian Shan, for which (P. Z. S. 

 1875, p. 638, woodcut) I proposed the name of G. eusteplianus, is 

 a race of the American wapiti, G. canadensis, or a closely allied 

 form. The other Asiatic elaphine deer are G. wanthopynus, 

 widely distributed, and G. luehdorji from Amoorland, the distinct- 

 ness of which is doubtful. Besides G. dt/howslii, G. sika from 

 Japan, G. mantchiincus from Northern China, G. cas2ncus from 

 Northern Persia, and some less known species belong to the 

 Pseudaxine group. 



365. Cervus duvauceli. The Bdmsiagha. 



Cervus duvaucelii, Cuv. Ot^s. Foss. ed. 3, p. 505, pi. xxxix, figs. 6-8 

 (1825) ; Anon. J. A. S. B. v, p. 240 ; Sclater, Tr. Z. S. vii, p. 346, 

 pi. xxxvi ; Broohc, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 905 ; W. Sclater, Cat. p. 179. 



Cervus babraiiija, Tlodtjuon, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 99 (no description). 



Cervus eluphoides, Hodyson, J. A. S. B. iv, p. 648, pi. liii, fig. 4 

 (1835). 



Cervus (Rucorvus) elaplioides, Ilodqson, A. M. N. 11. i, p. 154 (1838). 



Cervus dimorphe, llodyson, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 897, pi. (1843). 



