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MR. R. I. POCOCK ON A 



Cervus hanghi,*, better but wrongly known as cashmeerianus, is 

 a not uncommon Stag. Moderately good figures of it have been 

 published by Dr. P. L. Sclater (Tr. Zool. Soc. vii. pi. 30, 1870), 

 and by Mr. Lydekker (Deer of all Lands, pi. iv.), while there are 

 several photographs in existence of specimens that have been 

 exhibited in the Gardens or kept at Woburn. One recently 



Text-fis-. 70. 



Cervus hancjlu. 



Specimen, living in the Gardens in March, to show the resemblance of the 

 caudal disk to that of C. affinis, as described b^' Hodgson. 



published in the 'Field,' Dec. 30, 1911, shows very clearly the 

 shape and extent of the caudal disk characteristic of the species. 

 The white on the inner side of the back of the thighs extends a 

 short distance upwards above the root of the short tail, but the 



* Wagner in Schreber's Saug. iv. p. 352 (note), 1843. Various modifications of 

 the word cashmeerianus are also in use ; but of these cashmeriensis appears to be the 

 oldest, since it was first introduced b)' Leith Adams in connection with a description 

 of this species (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 529). 



