. The great and small game of Europe, western & northern Asia and America; their distribution, habits, and structure . er group was namedby the present writer ^ in 1900 on the evidence of a stag (figured on page 109oi Deer of All Lands) recently living in the Zoological Gardens at Moscow,of which a pair ot shed antlers are preserved in the museum at WoburnAbbey. These antlers form the actual type of the species. The stag inquestion was reported to have come from Turkestan. It has a large straw-coloured rump-patch, and its general colour is said to be grey at all seasons. ^ Annali and Magazine
. The great and small game of Europe, western & northern Asia and America; their distribution, habits, and structure . er group was namedby the present writer ^ in 1900 on the evidence of a stag (figured on page 109oi Deer of All Lands) recently living in the Zoological Gardens at Moscow,of which a pair ot shed antlers are preserved in the museum at WoburnAbbey. These antlers form the actual type of the species. The stag inquestion was reported to have come from Turkestan. It has a large straw-coloured rump-patch, and its general colour is said to be grey at all seasons. ^ Annali and Magazine of Natural History, scr. 7, vol. v. p. 196 (1900). 2 28 Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America The antlers are extremely close to those ot the shou, ;ind are also very likethose of the Yarkand stag, although in the type specimen they have, owingto the absence of the hez, only tour tines a side. This, however, may bean individual peculiarity. The figure is herewith reproduced. In 1901 the Duke of Bedford purchased a hind from Turkestan, whichis now (November 1901) living in the park at Woburn Abbey. In the. Fig. 5^..—The Bokhara Deer. Prom the Moscow specimen. large amount of white on the inner sides of the thighs this hind differsh-om tlie members of the wapiti group, and it mav turn out to be thefemale of the Bokhara deer, if the latter is rightly separated from thewapitis. Certain other stags at Woburn Abbey, reported to be from Tashkend,appear, on the other hand, much more like wapitis, of which thev mayindicate an undescribed race. Nothing definite can, however, at present Japanese Sika 229 be said with regard to the real affinities of any of these deer till otherspecimens are available for comparison. Possibly Cerviis hactriamis^ if rightly separated trom the wapiti group,will turn out to be closely allied to C. yarcandensis^ although, so far asour present information goes, it appears to be distinguished by its colourbeing uniformly light grey at all seasons, whereas the
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