1 1 8 Sikine Group 



not extending on to the outer surface of the buttocks ; tail bushy, white 

 with a black tip. 



The coloration of the winter pelage is described by Professor Noack as 

 follows : — General colour yellowish umber-brown, tending more to yellow 

 in front and to umber behind, and becoming darker on the back ; head as 

 tar as the nose yellowish brown, forehead and neck reddish brown, nose 



grayish red, upper lip yellowish red, the dark 

 spot on the grayish white lower lip moder- 

 ately large ; ear thickly haired, dirty gray 

 internally, rusty red externally. Mane on 

 head and neck very long and shaggy, whitish 

 gray in colour ; chest nearly black ; under- 

 pays whitish gray ; the white caudal patch 

 bordered in front with black ; tail white 

 with a black tip. Metacarpus yellowish red, 

 metatarsus umber-brown, each with a dark 

 streak in front ; no light metatarsal tuft. 



Two hinds in transition dress are described 

 as bright roe-colour ; the individual hairs 

 being umber mingled with blackish brown ; 

 the forehead darker than in the winter coat, 

 and the whitish base of the ear very con- 

 spicuous. 



In immature animals (plate ix) the 

 pelage is spotted with white at all seasons, 

 Fig. 31.— Head of Pekin Sika. From although more fully in summer than in 

 a specimen in the Museum at w j nte r, when it is very long and shaggy. 



Woburn Abbey. Photographed by . . • 1 1 



the Duchess of Bedford. Bucks in winter with the ground-colour of 



the body bright chestnut-brown ; neck with- 

 out spots, bluish gray at the base, then a blackish collar, followed by 

 chestnut ; face bluish gray ; thighs and fore-legs grayish brown ; under- 

 pays grayish white ; and often a dark band above the white on the 

 buttocks. In summer the general body-colour chocolate-brown. 



The plate represents an immature stag and two hinds living in the 

 park at Woburn Abbey in early winter pelage. Later on in the winter 

 the coat becomes more shaggy, and the under-parts a deep leaden gray. 



