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R. W. T. BLANFORD ON THE YARKAND STAG. [Feb. 16, 



February 16, 1892. 



Osbert Salvin, Esq., F.K.S.. Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. T. Blanford exhibited two heads (one mounted) and a skin 

 of the Yarkand Stag. The specimens had been lent for exhibition 

 by Major C. S. Cumberland, who shot the animals in the woods on 



Skull and horns of Yarkand Stag (from specimen in Nat. Hist. Mus.) *. 



the Yarkand or Tarim river in 1890, as described by him in ' Land 

 and Water' (vol. li. p. 318, March 14th, and p. 446, April Uth, 

 1891). 



Mr. Blanford made the following remarks : — 



The Stag of Eastern Turkestan was first brought to notice by 



^ The head here figured is in the British Natural History Museum, and was 

 presented by Mr. A. O. Hume. The skull measures in basal length 14 inches, 

 in breadth across the orbits 6-75 ; the two horns are 36 and 34 inches long 

 respectively, measured along the beam and round curves, and the girth of the 

 right horn, just above the burr, is 6-75 inches. 



