. The great and small game of Europe, western & northern Asia and America; their distribution, habits, and structure . short tail this deer resembles other forms ot thewapiti and difl^ers from the red deer. It is likewise extremely wapiti-like when in the winter dress, the stags then developing a long blackishmane, and the under-parts being much darker than the back, which variesin colour from whitish to brownish grey, with a very large straw-colouredor orange rump-patcli. In the summer, however, this mane completelydisappears, and the general colour, at least in animals of from three to five
. The great and small game of Europe, western & northern Asia and America; their distribution, habits, and structure . short tail this deer resembles other forms ot thewapiti and difl^ers from the red deer. It is likewise extremely wapiti-like when in the winter dress, the stags then developing a long blackishmane, and the under-parts being much darker than the back, which variesin colour from whitish to brownish grey, with a very large straw-colouredor orange rump-patcli. In the summer, however, this mane completelydisappears, and the general colour, at least in animals of from three to five Manchurian Wapiti 75 years of age, becomes bright foxy red. By Dr. Bolau the colour at thisseason is described as light brown. As a rule, the light-coloured rump-patch is as conspicuous in the summer as in the winter dress, but it wascompletely absent in the type specimen of Cerviis hcdfordiamis when in theearly summer garb. This is shown in plate iii. ot Deer of All same individual has also been figured by the present writer, in theProceedings of the Zoological Society for 1896, in both the summer and. Fig. 22.—Another Pair ot Antlers ot the Manchurian Wapiti. From the same locality as the preceding. (Elwes, cp clt.) the winter dress ; and a reference to the plates in question will show theremarkable difference in the coloration of this deer at the two de Pousargues is of opinion that the Manchurian wapiti is amuch smaller animal than the Altai wapiti, but this is scarcely borne outby the herd now living at Woburn Abbey ; and the hind shown in thephotograph on page ji was a very large deer. The strongly marked rufous coloration of this deer when in thesummer dress might be considered an objection against regarding it as a ^6t Game of Europe, W. & N. Asia & America local variety of the wapiti. But the wapiti-like features of the animal inother respects seem to override this. And there is, moreover, the possihilitythat an intergradation between this
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