. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. 118 Sikine Group not extending on to the outer surface of the buttocks ; tail bushy, white with a black tip. The coloration of the winter pelage is described by Professor Noack as follows :—General colour yellowish umber-brown, tending more to yellow in front and to umber behind, and becoming darker on the back ; head as tar as the nose yellowish brown, forehead and neck reddish brown, nose grayish red, upper lip yellowish red, the dark spot on the grayish white lower li
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. 118 Sikine Group not extending on to the outer surface of the buttocks ; tail bushy, white with a black tip. The coloration of the winter pelage is described by Professor Noack as follows :—General colour yellowish umber-brown, tending more to yellow in front and to umber behind, and becoming darker on the back ; head as tar as the nose yellowish brown, forehead and neck reddish brown, nose grayish red, upper lip yellowish red, the dark spot on the grayish white lower lip moder- ately large ; ear thickly haired, dirty gray internally, rusty red externally. Mane on head and neck very long and shaggy, whitish gray in colour ; chest nearly black ; under- pays whitish gray ; the white caudal patch bordered in front with black ; tail white with a black tip. Metacarpus yellowish red, metatarsus umber-brown, each with a dark streak in front ; no light metatarsal tuft. Two hinds in transition dress are described as bright roe-colour ; the individual hairs being umber mingled with blackish brown ; the forehead darker than in the winter coat, and the whitish base of the ear very con- spicuous. In immature animals (plate ix) the pelage is spotted with white at all seasons, Fig. 31.—Head of Pekin Sika. From although more fully in summer than in a specimen in the Museum at wjnter, when it is very long and shaggy. Woburn Abbey. Photographed by . • 1 1 the Duchess of Bedford. Bucks in winter with the ground-colour of the body bright chestnut-brown ; neck with- out spots, bluish gray at the base, then a blackish collar, followed by chestnut ; face bluish gray ; thighs and fore-legs grayish brown ; under- pays grayish white ; and often a dark band above the white on the buttocks. In summer the general body-colour chocolate-brown. The plate represents an immature stag and two hinds living in the park at Woburn Abbey in early winter pelage. Later on in th
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