520 Additional Notice of the Shou or Tibetan Staff. [No, 7. 



is decidedly longer, though not thicker, than this terminal snag. The 

 result is a simple fork instead of a crown of snags ; and, this being 

 my third fine specimen so characterised, I have now no doubt that 

 the simply forked summit is normal as before conjectured ; and also, 

 that the species is identical with my affinis, the trivial differences there- 

 from, noticed in the prior sample of the Shou, being no longer forth- 

 coming in this. 



The subjoined sketches and measurements complete what I have 

 to report respecting the present sample of this splendid Stag. 



Dimensions of horns. 



Feet. Inch. 



Greatest length, along curve, 3 1 0|- 



Girth just above burr, 7f 



Chord of arc or bend of beam, 1 0£ 



Basal interval between burrs, A\ 



Terminal interval between apical snags, 3 9 



Terminal interval between tips of beams, 2 6 j- 



Dimensions of scull. 



Length, from symp. interm. to jut of occiput, straight,.. 1 5|- 



Length from symp. interm. to fore angle of orbit, 10J 



Thence to jut of occiput, 8 



Greatest width between posteal angles of orbits, 6 \ 



Length of series of upper molars, 4f 



Interval of foremost molar and the canine, , 3 



Canine to front of jaw or symp. interm., 2\ 



Diameter of orbit, 2J 



Extreme length of nasals, 6^ 



Ditto of frontals and parietals, 8£ 



Breadth of occipital plane, 5f 



Depth of ditto, 4 



Teeth of upper jaw, 16 



P. S. The present specimen was killed in the district of Chumbi 



which is more wooded and less arid than most other districts of Tibet. 



To the north Chumbi adjoins Phari and other parts of Ding-cham vel 



Damsen whence came the priorly described specimen of the Shou. 



Chumbi is the basin of the Machu vel Torsha river which rises from 



the western flank of Chumalari. 



