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Elaphine Group 



sanpo, or Brahmaputra, of which the area consists, is a barren, treeless, 

 almost bushless waste, differing essentially from the country inhabited, so 

 far as is known, by any species of Cervus. I think it extremely improbable 

 tli at any stag inhabits Nari ; and under these circumstances it is not desir- 

 able to apply the name or nariyanus to a species which does not occur there." 



With this conclusion I fully agree, although I believe it would not be 

 accepted by all zoological writers. So far as English literature is concerned, 

 nothing appears to have been recorded regarding the habits of this very 

 distinct species of deer. 



6. The Wapiti — Cervus canadensis 



Cervus elaphus canadensis, Erxleben, Syst. Regn. Animal, p. ^05 (1777). 



Cervus wapiti, Barton, Philadelphia Med. and Phys. Journ. vol. iii. part 

 i. suppl. p. 36 (1808) ; Leach, "Journ. Physique, vol. lxxxv. p. 67 (18 17). 



Cervus major, Ord, in Guthrie's Geography, p. 292 (181 5). 



Cervus canadensis, Desmarest, Mamma log ie, vol. ii. p. 433 (1822) ; 

 Baird, N. Amer. Ma mm. p. 638 (1857) '■> Sclater, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vii. 

 p. 342 ( 1 87 1 ) ; Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 68 (1872); Caton, 

 Antelope and Deer of America, p. 77 (1877) ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, 

 p. 913; Merriam, Mammals of Adirondacks, p. 143 (1884) ; Merrick, 

 Mammals of Minnesota, p. 278 (1892) ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 33 

 (1896) ; Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 207. 



Cervus [Elaphus) canadensis, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 

 vol. iv. p. 96, v. p. 308 (1827). 



Cervus strongyloceros, Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer. p. 251 (1829) ; 

 Gray, Knoicsley Menagerie, plate xxxvi (1850). 



Elaphus canadensis, De Kay, Zool. N. York, vol. i. p. 118 (1842). 



Cervus [Strongyloceros) canadensis, Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 58 (1850), 

 Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 193 (1852). 



Strongyloceros canadensis, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. Ixviii. part i. 



P. 35° ( l8 73)> lxix - P art '• P- 55 6 ( l8 74)- 



Characters. — Height reaching to 5 feet 4 inches at the shoulder. 



Antlers very large, with more than five tines, curving backwards, and much 



flattened in the upper half; the bez-tine present, the fourth tine longer 



than all the others, and with the fifth, which is also long, forming a nearly 



