CERVID^ 139 



10. 5. 14. 1. Two detached antlers. Sze-chuan border 

 of Tibet ; collected by the Eev. W. N. Fergusson. Type. 



Presented hij J. lioivkmd Ward, Esq., 1910. 



XVII. CEEVUS YAEKANDENSIS. 



Cervus oashmirianus yarkandensis, Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892 

 p. 117 ; Lydehher, Deer of All Lands, p. 88, 1898. 



Cerviis yarkandensis, Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 447 

 Lydehher, ibid. 1896, p. 933, Oame Animals of India, etc' 

 p. 215, 1907, Cat. Hume Bequest Brit. Mus. p. 34, 1913 

 Pousargues, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vol. xi, p. 202, 1898 

 partim ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 35, 1910, ed. 7 

 p. 47, 1914. 



Typical locality Maralbashi Forest, Eastern * Turkestan ; 

 the range includes the Tarim Valley. 



A rufous-fawn deer, with a large and well-defined orange 

 rump-patch, which includes the tail, and usiially five-tined 

 antlers, which lack the lateral compression and large fourth 

 tine of those of the canadensis group, and have the terminal 

 fork placed at right angles to the middle line of the head, 

 so as to look directly forwards, and the fifth tine a little 

 inclined inwards, the beam not showing any marked angula- 

 tion at the origin of the third tine. By the development of 

 a third snag to the terminal fork (crown) the antlers may 

 become 6-tined, as in fig. 25. 



79. 11. 21. 252. Skin, young. Yarkand. 



Transferred from India Museum, 1879. 



89. 6. 8. 3. Skull and antlers. Maralbashi Forest; 

 collected by Eev. H. Lansdell. Purchased, 1889. 



91. 8. 7. 4. Skull and antlers. Same locality ; collected 

 by Mr. A. Dalgliesh. Type ; figured by Blanford, loc. cit. 

 Length of antlers along outer curve 35 and 34 inches ; basal 

 girth 6| inches. Presented hj A. 0. Hume, Esq., C.B., 1891. 



91. 8. 7. 5. Frontlet and antlers. Same locality and 

 collector. Same Mstori/. 



92. 3. 30. 1. Skin. Tarim Valley, Eastern Turkestan. 

 Mentioned by Blanford, loc. cit. 



Presented iy Major G. S. Cumberland, 1892. 



* Name spelt, intentionally, yarcandensis. 



