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Show 1896.] DEER FROM NORTHERN CHINA, 933 A. Antlers cupped, normally with a bez-tine. 1. C. elaphus. Europe to Asia Minor and N. Africa. In the Barbary form the bez-tine generally wanting. Tail long. 2. C, maral. Caucasus, Carpathians, and Eastern Persia. Face longer than in Red Deer, and antlers generally simpler ; but probably only a larger form of that species. 3. C. xanthopygus. Typically from Northern China. Not fully defined from No. 1; and part of its area perhaps belonging to other species. B. Antlers normally not cupped. a. Antlers with a bez-tine ; muzzle and chin dark, or not pure white. 4. C. cashmlrlanus. Kashmir. Antlers usually with five, but sometimes more tines, of which the bez generally exceeds the brow in length ; in form regularly curved. Caudal disk generally small, and white, but occasionally wanting. Tail short. Colour brown or brownish-ash. 5. C. yarcandensls. Tarkand. Closely allied to last. 6. C. affinis. East of Sikhim and Darjiling. Differs from C. cashmlrlanus in the beam of the antlers being much bent forward above the origin of the trez-tine ; bez-tine sometimes larger than the brow, but less constantly than in C. cashmlrlanus. Only five tines to antlers, which are very large. Caudal disk well developed. 7. C. eustephanus. Thian-Shan and Altai. Closely allied to the Wapiti, from which the antlers appear inseparable, although the legs are shorter. 8. C. luehdorfi. N . Manchuria. Doubtfully distinct from the last. Grey in winter, brown in summer. 9. C. canadensis. Antlers curving backwards, but slightly converging, and much flattened where the tines divide; the fourth tine very large, and the posterior terminal tine also large and directed backwards, nearly in the plane of the fourth. More than five tines. Caudal disk very large, and throat-fringe greatly developed; neck dark-coloured. Tail very short; face short. 10. C. bedfordianus. N . China. Allied to last, but smaller and more slenderly built. Summer coat uniformly foxy ; winter coat dark "brown, with large yellow caudal disk; throat-fringe thin and particoloured in autumn. b. Antlers without a bez-tine; muzzle and chin pure white. 11. C. thoroldi. Tibet. |
