Duke of Bedford's Deer 81 



Length on 

 Outside Curve. 



Basal 

 Circumference. 



Tip to Tip. 



Maximum 

 Width inside. 



Number of 

 Points. 



Locality. 





6 



30 



44 



5-6 



Crimea 



48 



7i 



? 



? 





Caucasus 



47l 



5i 



38 



? 



6-5 



>> 



47 



7i 



36 



37| 



6-7 



51 



47 



61 



2l| 



36| 



5-5 



Crimea 



46| 



5s 



18 



33 



8-8 



Caucasus 



45l 



7 3 

 /4 



25i 



35l 



8-8 



» 



45t 



54 



42 



35l 



6- 7 



Crimea 



45 



8 



36 



42 



1 1 - 1 



Caucasus 



45i 



7! 



? 





9-6 



Asia Minor 



44| 



6* 



33| 



35e 



7-5 



Caucasus 



2. The Duke of Bedford's Deer — Cervus xanthopygus 



Cervus xanthopygus, Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 5, vol. viii. 

 p. 376 (1867) ; Rech. Mamm. p. 181, plate xxi (1868-74) ; Fitzinger, SB. 

 Ak. Wien, vol. lxix. part i. p. 590 (1874) ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, 

 p. 68 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 17 (1896). 



Cervus bedfordianus, Lydekker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 932. 



Plate III 



Characters. — Size about the same as a large red deer. Antlers rounded, 

 with the brow-tine greatly elongated, and about three times the length of 

 the very short bez-tine, which is separated by a long interval from the 

 former ; five tines in those of the third year ; the curvature of the beam 

 regular ; the fourth tine not greatly enlarged, and probably no cup formed at 

 the crown. Tail shorter than in the red deer, and the caudal disk, when 

 developed, relatively large. Summer pelage uniformly bright foxy red on 

 the upper-parts and outer side of limbs ; face, throat, and inner side of 

 limbs bluish gray ; in winter the upper-parts brownish gray, with a large 

 bright orange caudal disk, the mane being blackish, with a considerable 

 amount of black on the tips of the hairs. No white on muzzle. 



This species was originally described on the evidence of a male from the 

 Imperial gardens at Pekin, which appears to be an old animal with the 

 antlers retrograding. In the figure the colour of the pelage is reddish, and 

 there is a distinct orange caudal disk, with a dark front margin. From the 



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