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great species of Eastern Tibet and doubtless of Mongolia ; and C. 
Walliciiii holds precedence for the Asiatic C. ela/phus of Pallas ; 
a different conclusion from that to which I arrived in J. A. S. 
XXIII, 736. 
From the splendid series of Stag-horns displayed at the meeting, 
it is sufficiently obvious that the North American Wapiti Stag (Ceb- 
vus canadensis) is the largest of the four species exhibited ; that 
the Shou (C. affinis) is the next in size ; that the Hungal (G. 
Wall t cm i ) follows ; and finally the modern European Stag (C. 
elaphus) ; next in succession (of species not exhibited) comes 
the Barbary Stag (C. babbabus), rather bulky in the body and 
low on the legs, the male with an enormously tumid larynx 
during the rutting season ; and smallest of all, by far, the 
elegant little Stag of Japan, and probably of the. north of China 
and of Mantchuria (C. sika, vide p. 91 antea).* C. aefinis is re- 
markable for never shewing, even in the finest horns (so far as 
hitherto seen), more than a simple bifurcating ‘crown’ or summit 
(vide figures in J. A. S. X, 722 ; XX, 388). C. babbabus, so far 
as I am aware, never shews the second basal tine (or bez-antler) ; 
but I have seen a horn of this species with a trifid crown ; and it is 
probable that C. sika also never developes the’ second basal tine > 
but with the mature horn of the wild C. sika I am unacquainted. 
The imperfectly mature Stags of 0. elapiius, again, are very gener- 
ally without the second basal tine, which actually does not occur m 
the series of horns of this species figured in Prof. Bell’s ‘ History of 
British Quadrupeds.’ But in horns of young C. Walliciiii, which 
I have seen, the second basal tine seems to be generally present 
(vide J. A. S. X, p. 750, pi. fs. 7 and 10). t 
This is not unworthy of notice, and helps to indicate that C. 
elapiius is a degree more nearly akin to C. bakbabus. Again, I 
think it will be found that in both C. affinis and C. canadensis, 
as in C. Walliciiii, the second basal .tine is very generally present 
in the animal’s second pair of horns,— rarely, if ever, so in G. ela- 
piius ! There appears also to be another marked difference between 
* Distinct from C. taiounus of Formosa. . 
t It is not so, however, in Mr. Hodgson’s figures of horns appertaining most 
assuredly to a young C. Wallichii, J. A. S. XX, 393; his Nan or Stag of 
Western Tibet, G. naryanus, Hodgsou. 
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