THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
the best head he saw as being 50 inches in length and 47 1 inches in spread, 
with twelve well -developed points. 
The Obi wapiti ( C . canadensis biedermannt) comes from the Teletz Lake, at 
the source of the Obi, and Barnaul, lower down the same valley. 
The main beam in the horns of this species is but little curved, forming 
an almost continuous line with the axis of the fourth tine, which is rela- 
tively small. There is no inward bending till the fourth tine, while the tip 
forms a long -handled fork. As in the Syansk or Altai variety the widest 
span occurs at the root of the fourth tine. The terminal fork inclines 
slightly inwards, so that in the front view it is concealed by the fourth tine, 
which in the Altai race inclines outwards. 
The Irtish wapiti (C. canadensis wachei ) is distinguished by Dr Matschie. 
The typical locality is the Shingielt Valley, in the neighbourhood of the 
Black Irtish, near Kobdo. 
It is characterized by the very strong incurving of the upper portion 
of the main beam, which is stout. In consequence of this the base of the 
terminal fork is situated in nearly the same plane as the root of the trez 
tine, which bends strongly upwards and inwards. The distance between 
the trez and the fourth tine is shorter than between the bez and trez. The 
fourth tine conceals the terminal fork, which consists of two subequal 
prongs mounted on a relatively short shaft. These two latter races, in the 
relative shortness of the fourth tine, appear to depart furthest from the 
normal wapiti type. 
Antlers of the first three of these races recognized by Dr Matschie, 
namely, those from the Tian Shan, the Altai, Siberian or Syansk, and 
the Obi, agree respectively in general characteristics with antlers from 
corresponding localities figured by Mr Lydekker in “ Deer of All Lands,” 
“ Great and Small Game of Europe, West and North Asia and America,” 
and by Mr H. J. Elwes in the Journal of the Linnean Society, 1889. 
Dr Matschie provisionally included a wapiti from the Krasnoyarsk 
district on the Upper Yenisei in the Altai race. Specimens of this wapiti 
in Count Potocki’s preserve in Volhynia are much darker than the other 
wapiti there, and as the Altai or Syansk variety is stated to be lighter in 
winter than the Tian Shan race this Krasnoyarsk deer may be a distinct 
race. 
It would seem, however, from a consideration of the orographical 
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