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that is to say more fawn, than the sides, and the top of the head, 

 the face, and the nape of the neck are browner than the back. 

 Tliere is no mane and the neck shows signs of coat change. The 

 legs are less distinctly speckled than the sides of the body and 

 are darker in front than behind. The belly is whitish, as in the 

 females of C. affinis described by Hodgson. Apart from the 

 prevailing greyness of the pelage, the most interesting features 

 about this Stag are the brownish fawn colour of the chin and lips 



Text-fiff. 71. 



Cervus macneilli. 

 Photograph of the plate of the type-specimen (P. Z. S. 1909, pi. Ixix.). 



and the coloration of the rump. The upper side of the tail is 

 black with a narrow edging of white. On each side of the tail 

 there is a narrow white area, which however barely surpasses 

 the root of that organ dorsally. This white area is bordered with 

 black, and there is a blackish-brown unspeckled crovip-disk almost 

 as extensive as the white croup-disk of C. toallichii. 



From the distribution of this Stag, its affinities might be 

 inferred to be rather with C. affinis than with G. hanglu ; and in 



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