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corresponding garb of the Wapiti, and of many other species of Deer 

 (e. g. C. Duvaucelei of India) : but the winter dress of the great 

 Asiatic Stag is strikingly different from that of the Wapiti or great 

 Stag of N. America — which has the upper parts very much paler, 

 contrasting with darker limbs and belly. I cannot trace, also, the 

 least appearance of the throat-beard conspicuous in an old male 

 Wapiti ; the tines of the antlers, I think, are shorter than is usual in 

 that species ; and there seems no tendency to the formation, in any 

 specimen yet observed, of a small additional snag near the inner base 

 of the first basal tine (or • brow-antler'), which in large Wapiti horns 

 is of frequent occurrence (Vide X, 750, pi., figs. 3, 5, 6). The horn 

 figured in Vol. XX, p. 393, pi. VIII, I consider to be that of a young 

 C. Wallichii : the peculiarity represented being very common in 

 the horns of C. elaphus of corresponding age. The second basal 

 tine (or * bez-antler') is far more constant in C. canadensis and 

 C. Wallichii than in C. elaphus, which last very commonly wants 

 it (especially when young), as constantly in C. barbarus ; the horn 

 of which latter species, again, is precisely that of C. dama (or the 

 Fallow Deer), but with a true elaphine bifid or trifid crown instead of the 

 palmation.* The whole of these, with the less affined (but mutually 

 allied) Tarandus and (extinct) Megaceros, constitute a series of 

 forms wholly distinct from all other Deer, whether of America, S. E. 

 Asia, or the Roes of Europe and N. Asia, which last have most affinity 

 for American types. The possession of the median tine (or 'royal 

 antler') is a characteristic distinction of this entire great Elaphine 

 series as here indicated (with rare individual exceptious), being met 

 with in no other Deer ; and these animals are also conspicuously 

 longer-bodied than other Deer, and have a different and distinct 

 carriage. My impression is, — having seen several fine living examples 

 of C. canadensis, having studied them attentively at all seasons, and 



* In what does C barbarus differ from the Corsican Stag figured by Buffon, 

 and from the Stag of Greece (original EAo^os), which I am informed is similar and 

 distinct from C. elaphus of modern zoologists ? I have several careful figures of 

 the Barbary Stag, male and female, drawn from first-rate specimens in the Zoolo- 

 gical Society's Garden. The species is further remarkable for the comparative 

 shortness of the limbs, and the enormously tumid larynx of the male during the 

 rutting season. The stag of the Appenines is true C. elaphus. 



