CERVUS. 185 



The Kashmir Stag; Barasingha, Hind.; Hangul or Honglu of 

 Kashmir. 



Dutrihuiion. — The Kashmir Valley, not extending eastwards ; 

 a single horn was procured by Major Yate near Balkh in Afghan- 

 Turkestan. 



Sir V.Brooke's nomenclature has been followed for this and the 

 preceding species and Cuvier's name Cervus wallichii has been 

 ignored since it seems impossible to decide with any car. 

 tainty to which species the specimen described by Baron Cuvier 

 refers. The pair of horns shed by the animal whose portrait 

 appears in M. F. Cuvier's Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes is 

 still here in the Museum, C. affinis " f ", they are the horns of 

 a young stag probably in its third year, the right-hand antler is a 

 simple beam with a brow and bez antler only, the brow being 

 considerably the longest ; the left-hand antler bears, in addition to 

 the brow and bez antlers, a third the royal, but in this case the 

 bez surpasses the brow in length ; in the case of the Tibetan stag 

 (Cervus affinis), the brow and bez are approximately of the 

 same length, whereas in the case of the Kashmir stag the bez 

 is generally considerably the longer of the two ; so that, as far as 

 the respective lengths of the brow and bez antlers are concerned, 

 there is no ground for considering C. wallichii to be either the 

 Kashmir or Tibetan stag. 



The antlers present no other points of note which throw any 

 light on their affinity. 



The stag which bore the antlers in question is said to have been 

 brought from near Mt. Dhoulagiri to the north of Nepal on the 

 further side of the snowy range, and it therefore seems probable 

 that the animal really was, as Jerdon thought, a deformed young 

 specimen of Cervus affinis. 



a. Skull and $ Kashmir Valley R. Lyddekker [Ex.], 1878. 

 horns. 



b-c. 2 Frontlets $ No history. 



d. I pr. horns $ No history. 



e-f, 2 horns g . ... Purchased, 1872. 



ff. Single horn ^ R. C. Beavan. 



k. Single horn $ Oxus River nr. Balkh C. E. Yate, 1887. 



Cervus canadensis. 



Cenascansidensis. SrxlebenSysl Reg. An., p. 305 (1777) ; Blythf.A.S.B,, 

 X, p. 737 ; id. ibid, xxii, p. 592 ; id. Cat., p. 146 ; Brooke P. Z. S., 1878, 



p. 9^3- 

 Cervus wapiti, Leath Journal de Physique, Ixxxv, p. 66 (1818)*. 



The Wapiti. 



Distribution. — Alleghanies, Minnisota, Dakota, Nebraska, Wash- 

 ington, Oregon and California, northwards to 57°, N Lat. 



