VARIETIES OF ASIATIC DEER 
fawn. In winter they grow long shaggy coats. “ The antlers are 
usually five tined, but by the development of a third snag to the crown 
may become six tined. They differ from those of the hangul in that the 
terminal fork is placed at right angles to the middle line of the head so 
as to look directly forwards. The fifth tine, which is generally inclined 
upwards, is larger than the fourth, and the whole upper part of the antlers 
is often bent forwards in the manner of those of the shou.” A good head is 
about 40 inches on outside curve. 
According to Major Cumberland they stand about 55 inches at the 
shoulder and live in the swamps and grass jungles of the river bank. 
Bare knolls are found in this kind of country, rising above the grasses, and 
from them the deer can be spied when on the move in early morning and 
late evening. They are, however, difficult to get, although on the river 
flats numbers of deer paths may be seen. 
A stag is found in the neighbourhood of the Manas River to the south- 
east of Ebi Nor which has never yet been killed by a sportsman and which is 
alluded to by Mr Miller (“ Unknown Mongolia,” vol. 2, p. 669) as the 
Dzungarian stag. This deer is probably very closely related to, if not 
identical with, C. yarcandensis. 
The shou or Sikhim stag (< 7 . affinis) (in the latest edition of Rowland 
Ward’s “ Records of Big Game ” the shou is named C. wallichi affinis) 
inhabits the upper part of the Chumbi Valley and some of the neigh- 
bouring valleys in Bhutan. The winter coat is very much like that 
of the hangul with a large white rump patch; ears large, tail short and 
general appearance wapiti-like. The antlers, generally speaking, resemble 
those of the hangul but are larger. The beam bends suddenly forwards at 
the trez tine, so that the upper part overhangs the face. The number of 
points is usually five on each antler, though seven and eight are known. The 
brow is closer to the coronet than is the case with the hangul. The brow tine 
is less constantly longer than the bez. The fifth tine is large and inclined 
inwards. The terminal fork looks almost directly forwards. Full-grown 
antlers appear to range from about 44 inches to 55 inches. 
“ The lowest elevation at which they are found, in the Chumbi Valley,” 
writes Captain F. M. Bailey, “ is about 9,000 feet. They are very scarce, 
a few only crossing the ridge which forms the boundary between Chumbi 
and Bhutan. I have seen them grazing on Lingmotang Plain in May, when 
the stags had no horns, and in the winter they are to be found in the dense 
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