THOSE THAT CHEW THE CUD. 
SOME RANDOM REMARKS ON RUMINANTS. 
is the true native name of the 
large deer of Kashmir (Cervus 
The Hangul. cashmirianus), although it 1s 
not unfrequently called the 
“ Barasingha.” The latter name, however, 
properly belongs to a quite different deer 
(Cervus duvaucelt), which does not occur in 
Kashmir but inhabits the plains of India. 
The hangul is a member of the group which 
includes our red deer and the American 
wapiti. In 
size if resem- 
bles the former, 
but in the 
voice of the 
stag-—a squeal 
instead ofa roar 
—it 1s more 
like the latter ; 
while it differs 
from both in 
the fact that 
the stag’s ant- 
lers usually 
have no more 
than five 
pots. More- 
over the young 
retain their 
spotted coat for 
an unusually 
long time, it is 
said until the 
third or fourth 
“HANGUL 
Tae 
pike ast 
J 
es 
year. This 
fine deer has 
not a very 
wide range; 
besides Kash- 
mir it inhabits 
some of the 
Photo by S. Nasiruddin, Calcutta. 
neighbouring Himalayan valleys, and is 
represented by an allied species in the 
woods of the Yarkand River in Hastern 
Turkestan. 
In Kashmir it frequents pine-forests, vary- 
ing its elevation according to the season ; 
in winter it may come down as low as five 
thousand feet above sea-level. The species 
has been exhibited at the London Zoological 
Gardens, but is seldom sent to Europe, and 
the specimen 
shown in the 
annexed cut was 
photographed 
in India. 
The present 
writer heard, 
when in India, 
that there was 
some idea of 
introducing 
the American 
wapiti into 
Kashmir; if 
this project 
should succeed 
it Is quite possi- 
ble the hangul 
would cease to 
exist as a 
species, for it 
would © almost 
inevitably in- 
terbreed with 
the wapiti, and 
the hybrids, 
which would 
certainly be 
as . fertile, would 
oradually mon- 
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THE HANGUL. grelise the stock. 
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