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by the hinds at Woburn Abbey) is distinctly red, brighter even than in the 

 red deer, while the winter coat is tawny yellow, of a different tint from 

 that of the East American race. No trace of red is observable in the Altai 

 wapiti. 



The type specimens of Cervus luehdorji, which comprised two pairs, were 

 obtained from Transbaikalia, and were probably brought from the Bureatish 

 Steppe of Northern Manchuria by nomads. The original description runs 

 as follows : — "The Isubra deer," as it is called, "is intermediate in height 



Fig. 26. — Manchurian Wapiti Hind at Woburn Abbey. Photographed by the Duchess of Bedford. 



between the European red deer (C. elaphus) and the North American wapiti 

 (C canadensis). In size it is closer to the former, in the shape of the antlers 

 to the latter. Its hair is in winter brownish gray, in summer light brown ; 

 the throat has a small whitish median streak ; the under lip is whitish, with 

 three black spots, one small one in the middle, and two larger ones on each 

 side. The strong mane is like that of the wapiti — in colour dark chestnut- 

 brown, in places almost black ; in summer it disappears almost completely. 

 The eye is smaller than in the red deer. The tail is much shorter than in 

 either the red deer or the wapiti ; in the male it is only two-thirds of the 



