. Fur and feather in North China . F. Wallace, who describes the hunting of these deer andother big game in his book Big Game of Central and Western China,secured a stag, whose horn had a circumference of 5f inches. Thesedeer were secured in the Min Chou district of South-western Kansu. Of the Szechuan wapiti iC. macneilli) no horn measurementsihave yet been published that I know of, the species having beendescribed from a doe. The Manchurian wapiti (C. xantliopygus) is an animal differingfrom the western forms in having a greyer coat and shorter but com-paratively stouter horns. Its record me
. Fur and feather in North China . F. Wallace, who describes the hunting of these deer andother big game in his book Big Game of Central and Western China,secured a stag, whose horn had a circumference of 5f inches. Thesedeer were secured in the Min Chou district of South-western Kansu. Of the Szechuan wapiti iC. macneilli) no horn measurementsihave yet been published that I know of, the species having beendescribed from a doe. The Manchurian wapiti (C. xantliopygus) is an animal differingfrom the western forms in having a greyer coat and shorter but com-paratively stouter horns. Its record measurements are:—length 33Jinches, circumference 5f inches, widest spread 21| inches. This deer inhabits the heavily forested districts of Kirin and Hei-lung-chiang, and, like the others, is much persecuted for the sake ofits horns, which, however, are considered of a superior quality. In North Shansi a wapiti is found, which up to the present hasnot been definitely identified as belonging to any of the species already Plate o ^
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