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general type of those of the hangul, but larger, and with the beam bent 

 suddenly forwards at the trez (third) tine, so that its upper half overhangs 

 to a great extent the face ; number of points usually five, the brow-tine less 

 constantly longer than the bez, and separated by a shorter interval from the 

 burr, than is the case in the hangul. With regard to coloration, which 

 Mr. Blanford states resembles that of C. cashmirianus, with the caudal disk 

 well marked, more information is required. In a mounted head in the 



Fig. 23. — Front view of Skull and Antlers of Shou. From a specimen in the British Museum. 



(Rowland Ward, Records of Big Game.) 



British Museum the colour is pale rufous brown ; and this is the colour of 

 the entire body, including the buttocks in the coloured figure of a stag in 

 Brian Hodgson's sketches. A second sketch, representing a stag and hind, 

 in the same series, shows, however, the colour darker and a large white 

 caudal disk ; this being probably the winter coat. In the aforesaid 

 mounted specimen the ear is not more than one-third the length of the 

 head, and is not distinctly white internally, but it appears longer in the 

 sketches, and its small size in the stuffed head may be due to shrinking. 



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