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Show 116 MR. W. T. BLANFORD ON THE YARKAND STAG. [Feb. 16, February 16, 1892. Osbert Salvin, Esq., F.B.S... Vice-President, in the Chair. Mr. W . T. Blanford exhibited two heads (one mounted) and a skin of the Yarkand Stag. The specimens had been lent for exhibition by Major C. S. Cumberland, who shot the animals in the woods on Skull and horns of Yarkand Stag (from specimen in Nat. Hist. Mus.)1. the Yarkand or Tarim river in 1890, as described by him in ' Land and Water' (vol. Ii. p. 318, March 14th, and p. 446, April 11th, 1891). Mr. Blanford made the following remarks :- The Stag of Eastern Turkestan was first brought to notice by 1 The head here figured is in the British Natural History Museum, and was presented by Mr. A. 0. Hume. The skull measures in basal length 14 inches, in breadth across the orbits 675; the two horns are 35 and 34 inches long respectively, measured along the beam and round curves, and the girth of the right horn, just above the burr, is 6'75 inches. |
