THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
in the forest the animals must be fairly numerous, but are so ex- 
ceedingly shy that it is very difficult indeed to kill one. The natives 
said that at Nonsatong the sasatni remained near the edge of the 
forest until the vegetation was well started and then retired deeper 
into the wilderness towards the Paik-tu-san.” 
Luehdorf’s wapiti ( C . canadensis luehdorfi ), named from a specimen 
coming from Trans-Baikalia, probably from the Bureatish Steppe of 
Northern Manchuria. The position of this variety is extremely doubt- 
ful. In Rowland Ward’s “Records of Big Game,” seventh edition, the 
note occurs: “ Appears to have been founded on aged specimens of C. c. 
xanthopygus .” Mr Elwes owns some horns procured by Herr Dorries 
in the Chingan Mountains and near the Sutschan river in Manchuria attri- 
buted by Mr Lydekker to this race. “Though much smaller than any 
race of the wapiti with which I am acquainted,” to quote Mr Elwes, “ they 
certainly show to some extent the horn character of the wapiti rather 
than those of the red deer.” 
Mr Lydekker regarded the race at the time when these horns came to 
England as more nearly related to the western wapiti from the Pacific 
Coast, Washington and Vancouver, than to the Tian Shan or Altai race. 
Mr Elwes makes the following interesting comment: “ If it be admitted 
that these horns belong to a race of C. canadensis, we have this curious fact 
in geographical distribution, namely, that the race of the West American 
coast more nearly resembles the East Asiatic race than it does the Rocky 
Mountain race, which latter, on the other hand, has resemblance to the 
Altai and Tian Shan race, most widely separated from it in point of 
distance.” 
Herr Dorries writes: “ There also lives in the neighbourhood of Vladi- 
vostok the so-called Cervus isubra or ludorfi. This prefers the mountain 
pine forests and is found from Possiet Bay northwards nearly to the 
mouth of the Amur and westward to the Ussuri country and also in the 
eastern parts of Manchuria. It lives in little parties of three to ten, and is 
shyer than C. dybowskii , which occurs in parts of its range.” 
The Yarkand stag (C. yarcandensis ) is found in the woods on the 
Yarkand, Tarim River and Maralbashi. M. de Pousargues regards it as a 
desert variety of C. wallichi. It exhibits a large and well-defined light 
rump patch, which includes the tail, the general colour being light rufous 
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