1910.] A WAPITI AND A MUJ^TJAC. 989 



Here it is my pleasant duty to lecoid an act of special liberality 

 on the part of Mr. Rowland Ward, F.Z.S., who, when their 

 interest was brought to his notice, purchased the two antlers and 

 presented them to the British Museum. 



As is apparent from the text-jBguie, the antlers are unmistak- 

 ably those of a Wapiti, and are somewhat inferior in point of 

 size to the pair surmounting a specimen of the Tian Shan race 

 exhibited in the Natural History Museum. Satisfactorily to 

 distinguish some of the i-aces of Wapiti l)y their antlers alone, 

 I find an exceedingly difficult, if not actually impossil)le, task, 

 Nevei'theless, when the antlers forming the subject of this paper 

 are placed alongside Wapiti antlers from the Altai and Tian 

 Shan, it will be found that they difler in certain small details 

 from all ; although such slight difierences are almost impossible 

 to describe. One recognisable feature seems, however, to be the 

 narrowness of the terminal fork, as compared with that of a 

 Tian Shan Wapiti. 



If I am right in regarding these antlers as indicating the 

 existence of a Tibetan Wapiti, it is a practical certainty that this 

 animal will represent a race by itself ; and although I am not at 

 present in a position to define it, I venture to propose the name 

 of Cervus canadensis ivardi for this presumed new race, in honour 

 of the donor of the type sj^ecimen. 



The Muntjac {Cenndus hridgemani*, Lydekker, Abstract 

 P.Z.S. 1910, p. 38). 



Passing on to the subject of the second part of this paper, I 

 have first of all to express my thanks to Lieut, the Hon. R. 0. B. 

 Bridgeman, R.N., F.Z.S., for submitting to me a series of skins and 

 skulls of Muntjacs from the An-wei disti'ict of Western China, 

 obtained by himself during a shooting trip. Mr. Bridgeman is 

 of opinion that there are three distinct kinds of Muntjac in 

 An-wei, which he calls the red, the black, and the yellow or tawny; 

 the last being the smallest. 



Of these, the so-called red species is identified, and rightly, by 

 Mr. Bridgeman with Cervulns sclateri, which appears to be distin- 

 guished from C. lachrymans of Sze-chuen by the more marked 

 contrast between the yellow of the head and the rufous or olive 

 of the neck. Both are characterised by the absence of a dark 

 nuchal stripe ; while in sclateri, at any rate, the young are 

 spotted, instead of uniformly coloured as in reevesi. The backs 

 of the ears are, I believe, yellow in both sexes. In An-wei 

 sclateri is the common species. 



With regard to Mr. Bridgeman's "yellow sj^ecies,*' in which 

 the whole tone of the coat is yellowish olive, with yellow speckles 

 on the hair, I take this to be near akin to C. reevesi, which is, 

 however, described as being typically reddish chestnut speckled 



* The complete acrount of this new species appears here ; but the name and a 

 preliminary descriptiou were published iu the ' Abstract,' No. 86, 1910. 



