. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . Distribution.—Northern China or (?) Kashgaria ; unknown in the wildstate, and apparently now represented only by the herd at WoburnAbbey, Bedfordshire. I02 RECORDS OF BIG GAME Length on out- Circum- Tip to Widest tj • ^ t v. side ference. Tip. inside. ^°^- Locality. curve. -33i 51 25i 32J 65 i3i •32 7i -31 6 31 4l 23 -30S 5 35tV 29i 5i -29i 61 29 2Si 5i 26^ 28i 6i 27 5i 20| ^25 5 22 4i 21 + 17 ? 8 + 8 Near Pekin 10 + 8 ? i^Z ? 7 + 6 ? 19th Punjabi Infantry. i8i 8 + 8 Near Pekin
. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . Distribution.—Northern China or (?) Kashgaria ; unknown in the wildstate, and apparently now represented only by the herd at WoburnAbbey, Bedfordshire. I02 RECORDS OF BIG GAME Length on out- Circum- Tip to Widest tj • ^ t v. side ference. Tip. inside. ^°^- Locality. curve. -33i 51 25i 32J 65 i3i •32 7i -31 6 31 4l 23 -30S 5 35tV 29i 5i -29i 61 29 2Si 5i 26^ 28i 6i 27 5i 20| ^25 5 22 4i 21 + 17 ? 8 + 8 Near Pekin 10 + 8 ? i^Z ? 7 + 6 ? 19th Punjabi Infantry. i8i 8 + 8 Near Pekin . Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. Duke of Bedford. American National Collection. British Museum (Duke ofBedford).35tV II+ 10 Imperial Park, Pekin Paris Museum (Type specimen).Duke of Bedford. Maj. W. Anstruther Gray. Hon. Walter Rothschild. Duke of Bedford. British Museum. Duke of Bedford. Do. - Owners Back-tine of this head measures 325 Back tine measured 2S inches from beam of antler. 5 + 5 ? 3 + 2 ? 3 + 3 ? 8 + 8 ? 6 + 5 ? 6 + 4 Bred in I England 4 + 3 D( 3. WHITE-TAILED DEER 103. Anllers of \iiglnian While-tailed Ueer. The WHITE-TAILED DEER (Mazama [Dorcelaphus] americana). (Otherwise Cariacus virginianus or Odocoileus virginianus.) Exclusive of the wapiti, all the deer of America are distin-guished from those of the Old World, except elk, roebuck, andmilu deer, by the absence of a brow-tine to the antlers, which areeither regularly forked or spike-like, and quite different from thoseof either roebuck or milu deer. In the white-tailed deer they arelarge and complex, with a long sub-basal snag, and the front prongof the main fork developed at the expense of the hind one, and carry-ing a number of snags on its upper surface. Tail long. A gland-tufton the hock, and a small cylindrical white one with a black centrenear the lower end of the hind cannon-bone. Colour of upper-partschestnut in summer and bluish grey in winter, with the under surfaceof the
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