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the main beam sweeps backward in the opposite direction, 
and describes a full semicircle. The antlers are both very 
heavy and long for the size of the animal. The specimens 
shown here, which are breeding satisfactorily, are the gift of 
Mr. Wilham Rockefeller. 
The Barasingha Deer, (Cervus duvauccli), also called the 
Swamp Deer, is to India what the mule deer is to North 
America. To my mind, the antlers of the former always 
suggests the latter species, and in size the two species are 
much alike. In summer the coat of the Barasingha is of a 
beautiful golden-yellow color, conspicuous from afar, and 
the antlers of old males reach a length of from 35 to 41 
inches, with three bifurcations on each beam. The antlers 
sometimes are shed and renewed twice in twelve months. 
With us this species breeds very regularly, and the off- 
spring mature well. 
The Altai Wapiti, (Cervus canadensis asiaticus), is, in all 
probability, the parent stock of our American elk, but it 
happens to be a fact that our species was the first to be 
discovered by systematic zoologists, and described. To all 
visitors who are interested in deer, the Altai Wapiti—and 
also the Tashkent Wapiti—are a constant source of wonder, 
because of their well-nigh perfect similarity in all points 
to our own wapiti, or American elk. Our Asiatie wapiti 
are exhibited in ranges connecting with the western rooms 
of the Asiatic Deer House, where they have bred twice, and 
produced two fine fawns. In the rutting season the males 
are very cross and dangerous. They are hardy, and re- 
quire no heat in winter. 
The Indian Sambar, (Cerzus unicolor), always suggests a 
tropical understudy of the Altai wapiti, clad with thin, 
coarse, bristly hair, and with shorter and smaller antlers, 
and a bristly mane all over the neck. Each antler possesses 
three points, only. Of all the Old World Cervidac, this 
species most nearly approaches the size of the Altai and 
Tashkent wapiti. It inhabits the hill forests of India, and 
in Burma, Siam and farther south it is replaced by the next 
species. 
The Malay Sambar, (Cervus equinus), also ecalled—most 
inappropriately—the ‘‘Horse-Tailed Deer,’’ very strongly 
resembles the preceding species, except that the bristly 
mane of the former is generally absent. The antlers of 
this species ‘are shorter, also, but very thick in proportion 
to their length. The Malay Sambar is confined to the Malay 
