ASIATIC WAPITI. 



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they had come direct from the Sayansk Mountains, east of tlie 

 Upper Yenesei River. The only original account I know of the 

 Deer of this region, though no doubt more recent information 

 exists in Russian, is by Radde in ' Reisen im Siiden von Ost- 

 Sibirien,' St. Petersburg 1862, vol. i. p. 284. Radde considered 

 the species to be C. elcqyhus, and saj's that it was found up to 



Text-iig. 83. 



Front view of antlers of Asiatic Wapiti from the Sayansk Mountains. 



and above tree-level on the Sayansk, Baikal, Apfel, and Chingan 

 Mountains, frequenting the thickest forests and islands on the 

 Amur, but wandering in summer as high up as the glacier 

 of Munku-Sardik and over the bare peaks of the Sayansk 

 Mountains. 



