. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . Kashmir Barasingha Head. SHOU OR SIX HIM STAG 37. Skull and Antlers of Shou. From Mr. A. O. Humes specimen. The SHOU or SIKHIM STAG (Cervus affinis). A very large stag with antlers of the general type of those of thehangul, but larger, and with the beam bent suddenly forwards at thetrez-tine, so that the upper half overhangs the face, the number ofpoints being usually five. The brow-tine is less constantly longerthan the bez, the fifth tine is large and inclined inwards, and th
. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . Kashmir Barasingha Head. SHOU OR SIX HIM STAG 37. Skull and Antlers of Shou. From Mr. A. O. Humes specimen. The SHOU or SIKHIM STAG (Cervus affinis). A very large stag with antlers of the general type of those of thehangul, but larger, and with the beam bent suddenly forwards at thetrez-tine, so that the upper half overhangs the face, the number ofpoints being usually five. The brow-tine is less constantly longerthan the bez, the fifth tine is large and inclined inwards, and theterminal fork looks almost directly forwards. In a young stagfrom Sikhim, referred to this species, the colour of the thick winter-coat was very like that of the hangul, with a large white rump-patch ;the ears were large and bushy, the tail relatively short, and the generalappearance wapiti-like (see , 1909, p. 599). This fine stag 38 RECORDS OF BIG GAME inhabits the upper part of the Chumbi valley and some of the neigh-bouring valleys in Bhutan. An identical or nearly allied deer is alsofound in the Tsan-po basin, near Lhasa (see the Field, October 27,
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