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[Kashmirian] Stag,” continues Mr. Adams, “ averages 13 hands in 
height” [ ! ], i. e. U ft. ; and Pallas’s 4| ft. at croup is prohahly 
French measure, and therefore fully equal to the other. But an 
adult Wapiti (C. canadensis), which I measured alive in London, 
with well developed horns, was only 4 f feet high at the shoulder ; 
though Lewis and Clarke measured one, which “ on placing it in 
its natural erect position,” measured 5* ft. from point of hoof to 
shoulder; and Mr. Catlin informed the late Secretary of the Zoolo- 
gical Society (Mr. D. W. Mitchell) that he had seen a pair of shed 
Wapiti-horns, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, of such dimen- 
sions, that when set up on their points, and thus converted into an 
archway, the tallest man of his party could walk under without 
touching them* Mr. Hodgson gives the height of his Tibetan 
C. aefinis as from 4| to 5 ft. at the shoulder (J. A. S. XX, 38b) , 
and it has been a disputed question whether this or the Kashmirian 
(i. e. the ordinary Asiatic) Stag should he referred to C. Wallichii, 
Duvaucel (Fr. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithog. II, t. 104). The latter name 
was founded on a living pair formerly in the Barrackpore menagerie, 
which were brought from Muktinath, near the famous towering moun- 
tain-peak of Dwalgiri, but on the opposite or eastern side of the Gun- 
dulc river and lying north of the great Himalayan range. The male, 
as figured by M. Fr. Cuvier (from a drawing sent by M. Duvaucel), 
would appear to have then borne his second horns ; and he measured, 
according to Hardwicke, 4i ft. high at the shoulder, and is figured 
with an expanse of white disk surrounding the tail similar to that 
of the Wapiti, but I suspect exceeding what is seen either in the 
Hungal or the Shou (as observed alive), and therefore prohahly 
exaggerated. This animal died at Barrackpore, and we still possess 
what were evidently bis horns (figured in J. A. S. X, 750, pi. f. 7). 
I have now compared them carefully with mature horns of both 
llungal and Shou ; and though it is impossible to pronounce with 
confidence, I incline rather to assign them to the former, considering 
also the locality, and the dimensions of the young buck as given by 
Hardwicke.f 
In this case, the name Cervus aeeinis, Hodgson, stands for the 
* Guide to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London (August, 1859), 
p. 48. 
f Since writing the above, I have seen a most magnificent pair of horns of 
this species, procured at Ladakh, 
