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spite of the lesser extent of the white on the rump, a feature in 

 which it more resembles C. hanglu, this conclusion is borne out 

 by the coloration of the chin and lips and by the shape of the 

 ears, which are pointed and appear to have had a sinuous upper 

 edge. 



Moreover, as Mr. Lydekker records, Capt. McNeill declared 

 the Stags of this kind that he saw in Szechuen to be nearly as 

 large as Wapiti. Even making allowance for exaggeration in 

 this estimate, the animals must have been of considerable size. 

 C. hanglit, however, is not a large Stag, although strongly made 

 and " cobby " in build. 



Unfortunately, there is no record of the date when the type 

 specimen of this Stag, a young hind standing, as mounted, forty 

 inches, was shot. 



Another type of this group of Stags is represented by a skin and 

 skull kindly lent to me for identification by Mr. W. F. H. Rosen- 

 berg, F.Z.S. The animal, an adult hind, was shot by Dr. J. A. 

 C. Smith on March 23rd, 1911, 30 miles S.E. of Tao-chou, Kansu, 

 in China, at an altitude of 11,000 feet. 



The colour is a tolerably uniform earthy brown relieved by fine 

 close-set speckling due to a subapical pale annulus on each haii*. 

 On the sides the main shaft of the hairs is greyer and less brown 

 than dorsally, and low down towards the belly the subapical 

 annulus is longer, so that the general tint is markedly paler. 

 The belly is white, but not the chest. On the neck the hairs are 

 longer with longer apical annulus, the shaft of the hairs being 

 browner along the nape than on the sides of the neck, so that 

 there is an ill-defined dorsal neck-stripe as in C. onacneilli ; 

 the front of the neck (throat) is paler than the sides ; the legs are 

 fawn-brown down the front and sides, paler behind. The forehead 

 is brown, the face grey-brown and closely speckled ; the lips and 

 chin are fawn-brown, unspeckled and without white, and the 

 black patch below the corner of the mouth is well marked. There 

 is a blackish-brown unspeckled croup-disk, as in C. macneilli, 

 and the hairs of this disk become gradually more and more white 

 towards the root of the tail *. The white on the buttocks is of 

 the same extent approximately as in (7. macneilli, but the tail 

 itself is much whiter than in that animal, since it merely has a 

 narrow median dark stripe as in most examples at all events of 

 C. hanglu. The ears are long and pointed, with apparently a 

 sinuous upper edge such as is seen in 0. wallichii. 



The following measurements in the flesh, taken by Dr. Smith, 

 may be of future use, although at the present time they indicate 

 nothing, because there are no corresponding measurements of 

 other deer wherewith to compare them : — 



Head and body 1745 mm. (a little under 6 feet ; tail 145 mm. 



* This is probably also the case in C. macneilli, but I was unable to touch the 

 mounted specimen of the animal in the British Museum, 



