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specimen of the Kashmirian Stag, the prongs of the trifurcate crown are 

 remarkably elongated, the crown subdividing low: and this pair has 

 very much the character of a fine pair of Red Deer horns, and might 

 well pass as such among connoisseurs familiar with the latter. In one 

 of Mr. Theobald's specimens, there is considerable flattening at the crown ; 

 and in another, with bifurcate summit, the posterior prong is elongated 

 and much flattened. Lt. Speke, of the 46th N. I., who has himself shot 

 many Kashmir Stags, was astonished at the size of the C. canadensis 

 frontlet and horns before the meeting, which he declared were out of all 

 proportion too large for any Honglu ; but Mr. Hodgson's largest SJwu 

 horns would appear to equal those of the Wapiti; and the Tibetan 

 animal certainly approaches the N. American in size and general charac- 

 ter, while the Kashmirian more approximates the European. It will 

 probably be found, however, that the bez-antler is of more regular and 

 constant occurrence in the Kashmirian than in the European Stag ; for 

 it is frequently wanting in good-sized specimens of the latter, as it con- 

 stantly is in those of C. barbartjs of the Atlas range, wherein the crown 

 commonly bifurcates and sometimes trifurcates. The Kashmirian Stag, 

 recognised as a distinct species, and if identical with the Persian Maral 

 (as there is every reason to suppose), will stand as C. caspianus, Ealconer, 

 apud Gray ; and if distinct from the Maral, as C. cashmeriensis, Fal- 

 coner, apud Gray.* 



horns of the Tibetan Stag, in /. A. S. X, 722, pi. ; where designated Cervus 

 affinis. — Since writing this, we have had figures taken of all the Kashmirian 

 horns exhibited to the meeting, vide pi. 



* List of Osteological specimens in the British Museum, pp. 65, 147 (1847). 

 In his subsequently published • Synopsis of the species of Deer' (Ann. Mag. 

 N. H., 2nd series, IX, 419), Dr. J. E. Gray identifies the Persian Maral and 

 Kashmirian Honglu, but applies to them the name C. pygargus, Hardwicke, 

 with C. Wallichii as a synonyme, under the mistaken supposition that the Tibetan 

 Shou has not the white caudal disk. This nomenclature cannot be conceded. 

 The name pygargus was never bestowed by Gen. Hardwicke; but he errone- 

 ously identified his Tibetan Stag with C. pygargus, Pallas, or the Siberian Roe ; 

 a widely different animal. Vide Trans. Lin. Soc. XIV, 581. It does not appear 

 that Gen. Hardwicke's paper on this animal was even published ; but a brief 

 abstract of it is given /. c, stating it to be " a native of the snowy mountains and 

 plains of Muktinauth, about five weeks journey from the valley of Nepal, in a 

 north-west direction.* The subject examined was a full grown male, 7 ft. 8 in. 



* Muktinauth is not far from the famous Dwalgiri ; but on the opposite or eastern side 

 of the (iunduk. river, and lies to the north of the great Himalayan range. Vide Allen's 

 Mnp of India. 



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