. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . r hair ; but specially characterised by the shortergland and tuft on the hind cannon-bone, and the larger and longertail, of which the upper surface is black and the lower mostly white. Distribution.—Western North America, from Alaska, British Columbia,and Vancouver to California. The Alaskan race (J/, c. sitkensis)has the upper surface of the base of the tail coloured like theback ; in the Californian M. c. scaphiotus the general colour ispaler and the ears are larger. Length
. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . r hair ; but specially characterised by the shortergland and tuft on the hind cannon-bone, and the larger and longertail, of which the upper surface is black and the lower mostly white. Distribution.—Western North America, from Alaska, British Columbia,and Vancouver to California. The Alaskan race (J/, c. sitkensis)has the upper surface of the base of the tail coloured like theback ; in the Californian M. c. scaphiotus the general colour ispaler and the ears are larger. Length on out-sidecurve. Uircumference r 1 ip toTip. l^ P--- Locality. Owner. 27f 6 I5i i9i 9 + 6 British Columbia . G. Wrey. 27 5i 13 20a 5+-5 ? R. H. Venables Kyrke. -22 4i I22 Vancouver Clive Phillipps-AVolley. -21 5 i5i 15 5 + 5 N. E. California . H. C. Nelson. -20i 5 17 17 5 + 7 Do. A. E. Leatham. -I9iI9i 514i 14 21 5 + 5i6i 3 + 3 pS. California . Sir W. Gordon Gumming, Victor Brookes Collection. 16 3S 8i i4i 5 + 3 - Owners measurement- British Columbia . , W. T. Outside. RECORDS OF BIG GAME. Prontlet and Antlers of Alarsh-Deer. The MARSH-DEER (Mazama [Blastoceros] dichotoma). (Otherwise Cariacus, or Blastoceros, pahidosus.) Antlers without a sub-basal snag, forking regularly, with bothprongs again dividing, and the upper one usually more complex thanthe lower. Ears large, with white hair internally. Hair long andcoarse, reversed on the withers for a short distance. General colour ofupper-parts bright rufous chestnut in summer, browner in winter ; legsblack from the knees and hocks downward. No gland on hind cannon-bone. Size, approximately that of a red deer. Although ten is theusual number of points, sports are —From Brazil to the inner wooded districts of Argentina. Length on out- Circum- Tip to Widest p^j^jtsside ference. Tip. Locality. Owner. ^25i 5 22I 6 + 7 Paraguay Dr. Albert von Stephani, 25 5i m 2li 5 + 4 Do. Ho
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