MAMMALIA. 
91 
5?? **«?*■ Ww 
y ultimis ?^ )roxima ti 8 ’ tertio paullo minore, quarto maximo , versus planulato , 
7 dminuentibus. 
Tile In i ll0,1,S w ^ ou ^ said to have been purchased in Kashghar. 
dtlcl 
itches in belonged to different animals. They are of large size, each measurin 
^hey proha Ki,r ^ a TP ea r m e to indicate a new stag. They have apparently been shed, 
'I inch,., V y belonged tn a nr mr. e i . 
ground 
J Ust above the 
curve, one is HP 9, 
burr. Each shows 
the other 10' 5 inches in circumference 
7 well-formed tines, so that the animal 
>Ua V eh a( J u 0 - 
Idtlge f rom t | ie f l’ 01nts - The beam is very much curved, and, so far as it is possible to 
ilj f arid branch aparH ° burr ’ the borns must bend somewhat towards each other at the 
^°ruier slightly 1 V GSS ^ aU mos ^ stags. The brow antler and bez are close together, 
^ e latest peculia e , XCCe< ^ s the latter in length, and the bez is rather longer than the royal. 
S l^'/ )0a m curves i n U ^ ^ le borns, however, is in the form of the crown. Above the royal 
Ai b % compeer aU 8 and gives out an anterior tine which is much the largest of all, and 
5S this fb! 5 bei *g °% 
. tbe bea * 
a little shorter, and scarcely smaller, than the beam itself. 
length, and 
s din ' eSe f°Ur branchc ^ 1VGS 0U ^ two °tber tines, each successively diminishing in 
fr/'i ^ arie > So , es ’ that is, the beam itself and the three upper tines, are in 
cqj , oO that 1 — uccuu nseii anu tue mree upper imes, are in nearly the 
11 r|,b 1( - remainder 0 /^°°^^ a ^ ^ ie b° m with either the beam or the great fourth tine in 
foiin.i • near est 
crown can he concealed behind either one or the other. 
Ulld hr a p a p, c, PPr°ach bj these horns in form with which I am acquainted may perhaps be 
? us Kami n?, ed by Severtzoff i 
an,i • Xhe ’ Turkestanskie Jevotnie, p. 105, under the name of 
(‘nv, IU the m n n n ,, , ll um ber of tines is similar, and there is some resemblance in their form 
,)n re f,vw , , uan ncr m which V.__, „ , rm.. t c n 
f arth ( b’om the Thian "g]" mCl1 beam curves backwards above the royal. The horns figured 
| )a ^ r a part, the be-n' ^ ^ u t in Severtzoff’s figure, the brow and bez-antlers are much 
Sc bon i n ^ 11 a PPears less curved inwards above the royal, and the tendency to 
^ e ^edsth;™" W ^ whilst the lowest of the four points composing the crown 
TraJ he b°rns of q eu **** ^ Size ' 
hi thl a ! ti0ns of the •viistephanus differ widely from those of Cervus maral represented in the 
ti 0a P r osent stag ^°° lo S ical Society, Yol. VII, p. 336, PI. XXIX. The curve of the beam 
'. U| h direction" a ^ er > the brow and bcz-antler closer together, and different in propor- 
eveg sparing the Tl* ClWn is Very dissimilar - 
b a( ,, ^ Vea ter diff ei . _ n ' Shan horns with those of Cervus caskmirianus 1 and C. affinis , 2 
Cr 0Wn^ 8 Awards thwt' be u °ti ce( b The Turkestan horns are smoother, and curved 
at t] lr , 1S totally distin c t ^ ’ ^ le brow and bez-antler are closer together, and the form of the 
a ppro ° bp of each hoy 10 ' p dlldeod i 11 C- affinis there are said never to be more than two points 
JL c h tlios e of c n 1 >0Vc _ tbe royal. At the same time the horns of C. emtephanus closely 
•I. ^ latever Air Hod ”^ 6 ' ^ ^ bc S rea t curve of the beam. 
v e ry t v ( '.b-> 1851 j Xx 0c » son s Cervus nar ay anus t founded upon a single immature horn (figured 
’ e rent, it s ^ ‘ y tII, and described, p. 392) may be, it is evidently something 
aior e t i°bt )e ars to n K , 1( t )ecu harity being the great distance apart of the basal tines, 
has h c 1:1 n aQ y Asiatic p ^ aS re S ai ’ds the horns, the Thian-Slian stag approaches the Wapiti 
°u discussed bv ^ d 'b e resemblance between the Asiatic stags and Cervus canadensis 
man y na turalists, and by none more fully than by Air. Blyth, 3 who has 
I Jalooner, Pal. Man., L, p. 576. 
. j °^ S0D ’ J - A. S. B., 1841, x, p. 721. 
• S. B,, 1853, xxii, p, 592 ; .1861, xxx, p. 185, &c. 
which the beam 
