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the species probably extends onward to the mountains of China 
proper and of Mantchuria* Mr. T. Witlam Atkinson, in his 
volume of travels in Southern Siberia, Ac., seems to indicate that 
more than one species fell under his observation. In the well wooded 
valley of the Houchan, surrounded by high mountains, towards the 
western extremity of the true Altai, he remarks that “Deer [C. 
Walliohii] are numerous in this region; while higher up the 
mountains, the Alain [C. affinis ?], a Stag of a large size, may be 
met with.” He went in quest of these Alain, and succeeded in 
killing “ a splendid buck in fine condition,” but gives no further 
information respecting it. Elsewhere he notices “ the Stags on the 
mountains and the Deer on the hills” of the Altai ; and of a remark- 
able scene in the Alain mountains in Tchungaria— “ thus these grand 
and wild scenes are closed to man; and the Tiger remains undis- 
turbed 111 his lair, the Bear in his den, and the Maral and wild Deer 
range the wooded parts unmolested.” Maral is the name which C. 
Walliciiii hears m Persia; from which country a pair of these 
animals were taken to England by Sir John McNeill, of which I 
have the most vivid recollection, and they certainly did not exhibit 
the Wapiti-like expanse of white caudal disk, as figured by M. Er. 
Cuvier. Their general hue was remarkably pallid. In a coloured 
drawing of a Kashmirian Stag, in summer vesture, taken from a tame 
animal in Kashmir, by my friend Gh T. Vigne, Esq., the pelage is 
represented as bright pale rufous-chesnut. Mr. A. Leith Adams 
however, states that-" The colour of the coat varies but little in 
the sexes, or with the seasons of the year; dark liver-colour, with 
reddish patches on the inner sides of the hips ; belly and lower-parts 
white, or a dirty white. The male has the hair on the lower surface 
° the neck long and shaggy (wanting in the female).'” Analogy 
W1 1 ' ELAI?HUS aud c - canadensis would indicate that the summer 
coat worn at the time that the horns are in ‘ the velvet,’ would be a 
)nght rufous, as Mr. Vigne has represented it in his drawing. 
It may he, after all, that the Alain of Mr. Atkinson refers merely 
* “ In Mongolia,” remarks M. Timlcowski, “ the name of ‘ Pnhi’ ■ A 
as ki ° f 
the valley's ^ T ith VV00tl a " d where 
of the oLt Gobi are Lubtlet the True £*5 *55* 
