RARE STAG FROM NEPAL. 



565 



Since then the only known specimens belonging, or presumably 

 belonging, to G. wallichii were menagerie animals, no confidence 

 can be placed in their alleged localities. 



Text-fig. 69. 



Cerviis tvaUicJtii. 



The photograph, forwarded to Mr, Lydekker, of the specimen shown in text-fia:. 67 



(p. 561). 



For a variety of reasons, into which it is needless to enter, 

 C. ivallichii has hitherto found no abiding place in the chronicles 

 of the Oervidse. Some authors have added its name to the 

 synonymy of the Kashmir Stag Cervus hanght (= cashmeriensis), 

 others have supposed the Stag to be identical with Cerviis affinis ; 

 others have left it as indeterminable. To settle, as far as may 

 be, its statvis and aflftnities it is necessary to examine in some 

 detail the characters of the two above mentioned species with 

 which it has been confounded, and of cei'tain other Stags 

 belonging to the same group of the genus Cervus. 



and other less well-known localities being mentioned ; the available evidence indi- 

 cating, in Col. Manners-Smith's opinion, that the species does not cross the southern 

 watershed of the Brahmaputra and is not found in Nepalese territory. He suggested, 

 therefore, that the original specimen of C.waUicliii had been brought to Muktiiiath 

 from somewhere in Western Tibet round about Lake Mansarowar. It may be 

 added that Col. Manners-Smith, apparently unaware of the discrepancies between 

 the descriptions of C. ivalliehii and (7. affinis, believed these two forms to be 

 identical. 



