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RUMINANTIA. 
Cerytts aittkis, Hodgs. Jerdon, Mam. Ind. No. 218, p. 251. — Blyth, 
Cat. Mam. Mus. As. Soc. No. 480.— Blyth, J. A. S. B., Vol. xxx, 1861, 
p. 188. 
C. Wallichii, Cuv. apud Blyth, J. A. S. B., Vol. xxiii, p. 736.— 
Hooker, Him. Jour., Vol. II, p. 214, (wood-cut of horns). 
This animal must he expunged from the list of mammals found in 
Sikkim and, consequently, has no right to appear in J erdon s Mammalia. 
After much enquiry in the country, I am satisfied that it is not found in 
Sikkim at all, nor yet in that portion of the Chumbi valley which is near 
the Sikkim frontier. I could not hear of its occurrence in the country 
north of Sikkim, and 1 am inclined to believe that its range is entirely 
eastern. 
This opinion, at which I had arrived quite independently, (for I had 
not looked at the paper in J. A. S. B., 1851, Vol. xx, p. 388, until after 
writing it) entirely confirms Mr. Hodgson’s account of the animal’s range. 
I think I)r. Jerdon must have overlooked this paper, or he would scarcely 
have given the animal so inappropriate an English name as the Sikkim Stag. 
Captain Elwes was especially desirous of obtaining a pair of the horns, and 
enquired about them from the people who came to meet us with the Sikkim 
Raja. All declared that this Stag is only found at a considerable distance 
beyond Chfimbi. Mr. Hodgson, 1. c. p. 392, learned that it only occurs as 
a straggler in the Chumbi valley, that it is unknown in Northern Butan, and 
that the region inhabited by it is entirely Tibetan. 
Moschtjs MOSCHii-'ERUS, L. — Jerdon, Mam. Ind. No. 224, p. 266. 
Hooker, Him. Jour., Vol. I. p. 269. 
The musk deer occurs, but is not common on the Chola range ; it is found 
much more frequently in the upper Lachen and Lachung valleys. 
Procapra ficticaudata, (Hodgs.). Blyth, Cat. Mam. No. 534, p. 1/3. 
Hooker, Him. Jour., p. 157, and wood-cut, p. 139. 
Hooker records 1. c. his having seen both this animal and the Chiru 
(Ke/mas Hodgsonii) at Lake Cholamu. I did not hear of it in Sikkim, nor has 
it, so far as I am aware, been met with. The Suba of Kambajong, as men- 
tioned in the first part of these notes, brought a fresh skin to Kangra Lama. 
Kemas Hodgsonii, (Abel). Blyth, Cat. Mam. No. 535, p. 1/3. 
Antilope Hodgsonii, Hooker, Him. Jour., \ ol. ii, pp. 132, 156, and 
wood-cut, p. 157. 
Hooker found the horns of the Chiru near Momay Samdong in the 
Lachung valley, and saw the animal at Cholamu Lake. The Tibetans assured 
us that it is not now found within a long distance of the frontier, and appear- 
ed greatly surprised when we told them it had been seen by Hooker. It 
