ROE DEER IN ASIA 
types of horn are found, from the more or less straight European-like 
variety to a widely divergent, many-pointed head, with, very often, the 
interior surface of the back tines almost facing and very close together 
at the tips. The Tian Shan race is known as C. p. tianshanicus. 
Professor Noack, in “ Der Weidmann,” August 21, 1891, placed on 
record the following notes, partly furnished by Herr Dorries of the Zoo- 
logical Gardens at Hamburg, of the habits of Siberian roe: 
“ Change of coat usually takes place about the latter end of April, 
though dependent tosomeextent on the season. By theend of September 
the winter coat is fully grown. The rut takes place in September 
when the bucks utter a loud and deep toned cry. In summer they are 
to be found in copses and open meadows, where they can wallow 
in the marshes or swim in neighbouring lakes. In winter they return 
to the mountain forests and consort with herds of larger deer. When 
the snow comes in November the roe collect in large herds, numbering 
from 300 to 500, and soon after migrate southwards into Manchuria, 
whence they return about the end of March or beginning of April. 
Enormous numbers are slaughtered at this season on the Ussuri 
River by native hunters.” 
The altitude at which they are found varies considerably in the Tian 
Shan, ranging from about 4,000 feet to 10,000 feet, and they are 
fond of the same sort of country in which they are to be met with in 
Scotland, river flats, long grass, thickets, and, late in the season, as I have 
remarked, forests. At the higher altitudes the ground they frequent is 
extremely rough and precipitous. In winter they are harassed a good 
deal by wolves. They are met with in the same country as bear and 
wapiti, and Colonel Wood tells me he has seen them when after ibex. In 
July and August the bucks are usually alone, the does in twos and 
threes. Towards September, the sexes mingle, the bucks shedding 
towards the end of November. The parties vary in numbers from four or 
five to a dozen animals, as many as five bucks, of which two were 
shootable, having been seen together. Abnormalities are frequent. The 
proportion of first-class bucks does not appear to be very large. Their 
vitality is, one would imagine, greater than that of the European roe. Mr 
Church mentions a buck which he shot right through the body being 
found on the following day still alive, though unable to walk. The 
summer coats are very red, particularly those of the does. Colonel 
Wood tells me that from the sound the natives are unable to tell whether 
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