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the patch are only a little darker than the back and are speckled 

 to the edge of the disk. As in Hodgson's skin the tails have 

 been cut away, and the croup-disk has a median abbreviated 

 irregular dark line, much more clearly defined in one skin than in 

 the other. This disk is of about the same size as in Hodgson's 

 specimen, although the hairs of the coat generally are longer and 

 less close and crisped. The legs are paler, being fawn-brown down 

 the front and on the fetlocks, and the lips and chin are also fawn, 

 and not cream and white as in C. hanglu. 



Reverting once more to the mounted head in the British 

 Museum, it may be added that the left ear shows signs of the 

 emargination of its upper border so evident in the living example 

 of C. locdlickii. The right ear nevertheless has a straighter upper 

 rim. I suspect, hoAvever, that C. afinis has the ears shaped as 

 in C. toallichii. 



Putting all these facts together, it appears to me that G. affinis 

 is nearly intermediate in coloration between G. wallichii and 

 G. hanglu, especially in the general tint of the body and limbs 

 and the size and division of the caudal disk, the most marked 

 character in which it resembles G. wallichii and differs from 

 G. hanglu being the fawn colour of the lips and chin. 



There is evidence also that both G. tvallichii and G. affinis are 

 larger than G. hanglu and have longer faces * ; but judging by 

 the standard of specific and subspecific difierences usually adopted 

 in the Oervidse, it appears to me to be doubtful whether more 

 than subspecific importance should be granted to the diflferences 

 above described between G. tvallichii, G. affinis, and G. hanglu. 

 It must be remembered, however, that wallichii is the oldest 

 name of the three. 



Exact particulars of the range of G. affinis are much wanted. 

 Only two districts are mentioned by Mr. Lydekker in the table 

 of horn-measurements in Rowland Ward's ' Records of Big 

 Game,' 1910 (p. 38), namely, the Tibetan Frontier and the 

 Choombi Valley ; but the valleys of Bhotan near the Choombi 

 are added under the diagnosis of the species. The Stag has 

 also been recorded by Ool. H. A. Iggulden from the Tsan-po 

 basin, near Lhasa (' Field,' Oct. 1906, p. 736); but whether the 

 specimens were accurately determined or not, it is impossible, 

 without the evidence of skins, to say. 



Another Stag belonging to this same group is the animal from 

 Szechuen described by Mr. Lydekker as G. cashmirianus macneilli 

 (P. Z. S. May 11, 1909, p. 588, pi. Ixix.). The coat is finely 

 speckled all over owing to the apical annulation of the hairs, as 

 in Mandelli's skins of G. affinis and as in fresh-coated examples of 

 G. hanghi; the prevailing colour, however, is strikingly grey, 

 especially on the sides and legs, but the back is rather darker, 



* This diiference is veiy noticeable between the examples of C. hanglu and 

 C. wallichii living side by side in the Gardens, 



