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living in the London Zoological Gardens : hut the figure of a Hunga- 
rian horn, before cited, does not hear out the supposition ; it having 
more the character of the fossil Stag-horns of Western Europe. The 
Asiatic race is the C. elaphus of Pallas’s Zoograpliia Bosso-Asiatica 
(I, 216, edit. 1831 ). — “ Europseos magnitudine excedere videtur. 
Caput elongatum, rostro producto versus frontem sub-compresso, 
extremo depressiusculo, rotundato. * * * Cornua masculorum, 
cum portione cranii ponderata 20 libras* asquabant. * * * In 
ipsa Russia exulent,t nisi quandoque advenat ; in nemerosis ad 
Terec fluv. totoque Caucaso usque ad Cuman lluv. frequentissimi ; 
denuo apparent magno numero in sylvosis subaltaicis, et dehinc per 
totam Siberiam, circa Baicalem maximelacum ct ad Vitim et Lenain 
lluviis usque, non in maxime borealibus, nec in ultimo Siberiae angulo. 
* * * Longitudo animalis a summo rostro ad anum 7', 8'', O'" ; 
altitudo ad scapulis 4', 5", O'" ; ad lumbos 4', 6'', O'" ; longit. capitis 1’, 
6", O'" ; caudte 4s' 1 , 2 , ' / .” This is the Kashmirian Stag (Hungal or Hun- 
glu of Anglo-Indian sportsmen), which Mr. A. Leith Adams, Surgeon, 
22nd Regiment, has noticed in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 530, where 
he remarks that “ the horns are large, and usually very massive, 
with from 10 to 15 or more points according to age. The largest 
pair of horns 1 have measured,” he adds, “ were 4 feet round the 
curves, with 6 and 7 points. In habits and general appearance,” 
remarks this observer, “ the Kashmirian Stag bears a striking resem- 
blance to the Red Deer. Although it is seldom now-a-days that 
individuals of the latter species escape the hunter so long as to 
attain the size and magnitude of the Kashmirian animal, yet I think 
it will be found that the horns of those killed in the forests of Scot- 
land in former years are equal to any at present met with in 
Kashmir.” (The race, however, is different, as the superior magni- 
tude of the Asiatic Stags, compared with the modern European, is 
conspicuous at all ages ; and vigour and high feeding, rather than 
great age^ — when the horns successively decline,— produce the maxi- 
mum of development during the animal’s prime of life, as Mr. Adams 
would doubtless admit, and at least some individuals should attain 
the necessary age even now in the Scottish Highlands. “ An adult 
* 20 its. Russian = 18 Its. avoirdupois. 
t Mr. T. Witlam Atkinson obsorvod numerous Stags in the southern Oural 
(in the district of the gold-mines of Calbouch), which were doubtless of the Asiatic 
species. 
