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mentions this peculiar cry and reduces it to musical notation*. 

 Now though such a fact as this may be looked upon as trifling 

 by some naturalists, I A^eoture to thiak that, as in the case of 

 the song of birds, the cry of an animal is a point of material 

 value in deciding the question of specific alliauce. 



If, on examination, M. Biiclmer should consider that the horns 



Fig. 



Another example of C. Lichdorfi. From the saute source as fig. 4. 



from the Tenesei, of which I have spoken, belong to a race 

 different from that of the Altai and Thian-shan, and are also 

 different from that found on the Amur and in Manchuria, and 

 if it should prove that this race, notwitlistanding that its horns 



* Mr. J. E. Harting' informs me that the notes indicated by Eadde {op, 

 cit.) accurately express the call of the Wapiti as heard by him repeatedly 

 in the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens, and are quits unlike the call of 

 the European Eed Deer. 



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