CHINA 
species Mr Fenwick -Owen and myself, at the date of writing, are the only 
Europeans to have shot. 
Mr Wilson shows a photograph of a fine pair of typical wapiti antlers 
belonging to the race which he describes. He purchased them in Sungpan in 
1903, the stag having been killed a few days previously just west of the town. 
M ’Neill’s deer (C. macneilli; native name, Peh-lutsze) is named from a 
female shot by Major M’Neill west of Tachienlu in 1908 and described 
by Mr Lydekker in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 
published October, 1909. Major M ’Neill writes: “ The only chance I had 
of examining one at all well — through a telescope — showed a somewhat 
similar white rump patch to that of the American wapiti.”* 
The Kansu deer (C. kansuensis; native name, Ma-loo) was named from 
a female shot by Dr J. A. C. Smith, March 23, 1911, thirty miles 
S.E. of Tao-chow, Kansu, at an altitude of 11,000 feet. The Kansu deer, 
to quote Mr Lydekker, is probably only a dark -coloured race of the 
Szechuan and Yunnan C. macneilli. This is the only large variety of deer 
from China with which I am personally acquainted. Mr Owen and myself 
were fortunate in securing the stags we did, as several other European 
hunters have tried for them without success. I take the following descrip- 
tion from an account I wrote at the time: 
“ An adult stag stands about fifty -seven inches at the shoulder, 
and weighs (approximately) 530 lb. A North American wapiti will 
scale about 700 lb. In appearance the Chinese beast is very much like 
a Scottish red deer, though, of course, larger in every sense. He has, 
however, more or less similar dark markings on the haunches and 
tail instead of the uniformly coloured rump patch of his big relation. 
He is in the winter brown -grey all over, and has not the distinctive 
dark neck and light body of the American animal. The legs are darker 
than the body. The hinds are relatively smaller, and I was much struck 
by the apparently abnormal size of their ears. 
* Captain F. M. Bailey has kindly supplied me with the following note : 
“There are three varieties of stag whose horns are brought for sale to Tachienlu, called in Tibetan (1) Sha-na, 
(2) Sha-me, (3) Sha-jia. 
“ (1) The Sha-na is said to be dark in colour and to have only six points to the horns. I saw horns of this stag which 
appeared to be those of a Sambhur. Their stages ( ? ) are found two days' march to the south of Litang. 
“(2) The Sha-me is reddish-brown and has twelve points to the horns. It is found at a place called Yara-Tsurong-Ka^ 
two days’ march to the north-west of Tachienlu. 
“(3) The Sha-jia is grey with twelve to sixteen points to the horns. It is found three days west of Tachienlu at 
La-li-shi.” 
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