1889.] W. L. Sclater— 0» a Slag allied lo Cervus dybowsldi. 187 



face of each tooth ; the intermediate ones, however, are not so well 

 marked ; this also shows an Elaphine rather than a Rusine affinity. 



The antlers are placed on moderate pedestals, the brow antler springs 

 at almost a right angle to the beam, and subsequently is slightly turned 

 lap at the point; half way up the beam there is another anteriorly 

 directed tine, tliat on the right antler being considerably shorter than 

 on the left ; above this, the median tine, there are two more anteriorly 

 directed tines, the lower one of considerable length, the upper one short, 

 but surpassing the distal unbranched end of the beam in length. 



The horns are thin and slender, marked with longitudinal ridges, 

 and rather worn, so that they were probably soon about to be shed ; the 

 animal was therefore probably killed in early spring or late winter, if 

 there is any analogy to be drawn from the time of horn-shedding of the 

 Kashmir stag. 



The head when it arrived had been preserved with the skin on ; this 

 was carefully removed and cured. 



The rhinarium agrees with that of the Rusine rather than with that 

 of the Elaphine group ; it is fairly extensive, but does not quite sur- 

 round the nostrils; the prenarial portion, forming the isthmus between 

 the narial and labial portion, is rather narrow; but tlie infra-narial 

 portion, the absence of which is so marked in the Elaphine group, is 

 here well developed. 



The hair on the head is rather coarse, it is dark brown in colour, 

 each hair being provided with a subterminal band of yellow, so that the 

 general appearance of the far is of a speckly yellow ; the hair round the 

 rhinarium and upper lip is white. 



The above description leaves little or no doubt that the animal 

 belongs to the group Pseudaxis as defined by Sir V. Brooke in his well- 

 known paper on the Cervidas (P. Z. S. 1878, p. 907). 



There are only two species of the group Pseudaxis which approach 

 our specimen in size; these are G. mantchuricus and 0. dyhou-sldi ; of 

 these 0. mantolmriaus, though figured, is nowhere very fully described. 

 Cervus dyhowskii is well described by Taczanowski (P. Z. S. 1876, 

 p. 25), and seems to agree with our specimen in nearly all respects ; 

 there are, however, only 8 points to the antlers described by Taczanowski, 

 while our specimen possesses 10 points ; in every other respect except 

 size our specimen agrees with the description given by M. Taczanowski ■ 

 the colour speckly brown, the white muzzle, and also the curiously shaped 

 nasals, which are clearly shown in the wood-cut accompanying the 

 description, though not mentioned in the text. 



In size the Cervus dyhowsldi seems slightly inferior to our specimen, 

 as will be seen by the measurements iu inches of the two specimens given 



