RARE STAG FROM NEPAL. 



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cliflFer from those of all living Deer that I have seen in having 

 the upper edge markedly sinuous (emarginate) towards the tip. 

 The hairs on the neck and throat are longer than elsewhere 

 and constitute a small mane. The tail is quite short, the legs 

 strong, the hoofs rather broad and the metatarsal tuft a little 

 below the hock. The colour (in March) is remarkably pale, being 

 a tolerably uniform yellowish or sandy-brown all over, except on 



Text-fig. 67. 



Cervus wallichii. 

 The King's specimen shoi'tly after its arrival at the Gardens in March. 



the forehead where the matted hair is browner, on the cheeks 

 and the backs of the ears which are greyer, and on the muzzle 

 and chin which are pale fawn with an indistinct darker patch at 

 the corner of the mouth. The backs of the thighs are white, 

 the pale portion of the rump being only as wide as in the 

 Hangul or Kashmir Stag, but from the level of the ischia the 

 white bends sharply forwards and extends nearly as far as 



