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the summit of the croup, forming a very large pure white disk 

 without trace of median dividing dark line. Upon the croup 

 this disk is not emphasized by a bordering of darker hairs ; but 

 below the level of the tail, the white on the back of the thighs 

 is set off by a margin of brown. This disk, so far as size is 

 concerned, differs from that of the Wapiti in being narrower 

 below, its width on each side on a level Avith the tip of the tail 

 only equalling the width of that organ, whereas in the Wapiti 

 the disk at this point is equal to twice the width of the tail. 



It is also noticeable that the hairs adjoining the croup-disk are 

 quite white at the base, so that if they were elevated or deprived 

 of the yellowish-brown pigment of their distal portions, a far 

 larger white rump patch would be displayed than is normally the 

 case. None of the hairs show signs of speckling apically or 

 elsewhere, and their concealed portion is greyish brown on the 

 body, though darker on the neck. Both on the body and over 

 the croup a very large number of them are curled forwards 

 apically, like those on the croup of the type specimen of G. 

 ivallichii as described by Ouvier, but a mounted specimen of the 

 Kashmir Stag in the British Museum shows, to a lesser degree, 

 this same peculiarity, Avhich is no doubt a sign of old hair. 



The antlers, which were shed early in March on the voyage 

 from India, are short but massive. The right one is abnormal, 

 the left probably normal but, possibly, reduced in size from age 

 degeneracy. Both are brown with pale tips to the tines. In the 

 left antler the burr is short, the brow tine rising about an inch 

 above it. This tine is about 8| inches long, projects nearly 

 horizontally forwards and is bent slightly down just before the 

 tip. The bez tine is straight, about half an inch shorter than the 

 brow and diverges from it at an angle of about 45°, their basal 

 separation being about 1 inch. Just above the root of the bez 

 on the inner side there is a short snag. Beyond the bez the 

 beam curves gently outwards and upwards for about 7g inches to 

 the origin of the ti-ez, which is about 7 inches long and lightly 

 curved, and lies in approximately the same plane as the bez and 

 brow tines. Above the trez the beam ascends, showing upon the 

 anterior aspect a slight inward inclination, but from the external 

 profile view it exhibits a decided inclination backwards with a 

 light upward curve, its axis lying almost at an angle of 45° to 

 that of the trez, and forming a very obtuse angle with the lower 

 part of the beam, there being a marked concavity behind the 

 root of the trez. It terminates above in two tines, one short and 

 erect and continuing the line of the beam, the other twice as 

 long and inclined upwards and inwards. 



The antler is thus five-pointed. It resembles the antlers of 

 the typical specimen in the basal juxtaposition and marked 

 divergence of the brow and bez tines, but, apart from the 

 presence of the ti^ez tine, differs from them in the more upward 

 curvature of the basal part of the beam, which is thus inclined at 

 sharper angles to the axis of the brow and bez tines. In this 



