. The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet,' . asilyapproached, and in former times numbers wereruthlessly slaughtered by the villagers when drivendown by the storms of winter to seek shelter at lowlevels. The fawns are generally dropped during themonth of April. An account of hangul-stalking will be found inGeneral MIntyres work, The Hindu Koh. The Yarkand stag [Cervus yarcandensis) was atone time believed to be only a race of the hangul, butit is entitled to rank as a perfectly distinct specie
. The game animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The great and small game of India, Burma, and Tibet,' . asilyapproached, and in former times numbers wereruthlessly slaughtered by the villagers when drivendown by the storms of winter to seek shelter at lowlevels. The fawns are generally dropped during themonth of April. An account of hangul-stalking will be found inGeneral MIntyres work, The Hindu Koh. The Yarkand stag [Cervus yarcandensis) was atone time believed to be only a race of the hangul, butit is entitled to rank as a perfectly distinct only do its antlers, as shown by a series ofspecimens in the British Museum, differ markedlyfrom those of the Kashmir stag, but the coat of theYarkand stag is distinctly reddish in place of grey,and has much less black on the under-parts andhindquarters ; while the tail is entirely rufous instead 215 Game Animals of India, etc. of mainly black on the upper surface, and the rump-patch is larger and orange-coloured. The terminalfork of the antlers (fig. 34) looks directly forwards,the fifth tine is usually larger than the fourth, and in. Fig. 34.—Skull and Antlers of Ynrkand Stag, from a specimen in theBritish Museum. some specimens, as in the one here figured, the upperpart of the antler is more curved forwards, somewhatafter the manner obtaining in the shou. In all theserespects the antlers are more shou-like than are thoseof the hangul. 216 The Shou, or Sikhim Stag THE SHOU, OR SIKHIM STAG {Cervus affinis) Native Name.—Shou^ Bhotias of Nepal andDarjiling (Plate vi, fig. 2) Although its magnificent antlers are not uncommonin collections, few British sportsmen have seen theshou alive ; and in Europe it is chiefly known byskulls and antlers, although the British Museumpossesses one mounted head. Of the general appear-ance of this stag our chief knowledge is derived tromtwo coloured sketches formerly belonging to itsdescriber, Brian Hodgson, and now preserved in thelibra
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