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at Barrackpore, and we still possess what were evidently his homs. I 

 hare now compared them carefully with mature homs of both Hungal and 

 Shou ; and though it is impossible tD pronounce with confidence, I in- 

 cline rather to assign them to the former, considering also the locaUty and 

 the dimensions of the young buck as given by Hardwicke." 



Judging from the figure alone, I am inclined to think that it represents 

 Cervus qffinis, both from the peculiar light color of the pelage, and the 

 larger white disk. In this case the Shou would stand as C. Wallichii, and 

 the Kashmir stag as C. cashmiriensis, Falconer. It is a point reserved for 

 future travellers and sportsmen to ascertain the limits of C. Wallichii 

 east, and C. affinis, west ; for, as Dr. Sclater remarks, " it would be con- 

 trary to all analogy to find two species of the same type inhabiting one 

 district. " In the new edition of the Catalogue of Hodgson's Collections, 

 the native names given are Sia mpchu, and Shou of Tibet. I presume that 

 this is a misprint, and that Sia is given as the name of this deer in 

 Eupchu, which would be a more western locality than hitherto recorded. 



Other species of true elaphine deer are besides the Wapiti and the 

 red-deer, Cervus barbarus, Bennett, from North Africa ; C. sika, Schlegel, 

 from Japan ; C. mantchuricus and C. taiouanus, Swinhoe, respectively from 

 from Mantchuria and Formosa. Of these C. barbarus and C. sika, appear 

 never to show the second basal tine. AH the species, except C affinis, 

 are now Uving in the Zoological Gardens, London. 



The rein-deer, Tarandus rangifer, from the glacial regions of both con- 

 tinents, and the fallow-deer, Dama vulgaris, spread through Europe, be- 

 long to .this sub-family ; and both of them have the homs more or less 

 flattened. The former has no muffle. The elk or moose deer, Alces ma- 

 chlis, Ogilby, from the marshy forests of the north of both continents, 

 has the homs still more flattened, and is the giant of the deer tribe. It 

 has a small muffle. It is said to stand 6 feet high, and some pairs of 

 homs are known to weigh 66 Sis., and to have fourteen points on each 

 horn. It is placed by some in a separate sub-family, Alcinee. 



Sub-fam. Rxtsin^e. 



With one basal tine and no median tine. Summit more or less branched, 

 generally -with only one subterminal tine. Muffle high. 



This group, which includes the Samber, the spotted deer, and the Kakur 

 or muntjac, is pecuhar to the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia 

 and its archipelago, or to the Indian kingdom, taken in its widest sense. 



