. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Manchurian Wapiti 103 by the hinds at Woburn Abbey) is distinctly red, brighter even than in the red deer, while the winter coat is tawny yellow, of a different tint from that of the East American race. No trace of red is observable in the Altai wapiti. The type specimens of Cervus luehdorji, which comprised two pairs, were obtained from Transbaikalia, and were probably brought from the Bureatish Steppe of Northern Manchuria by nomads. The original description runs as fo
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Manchurian Wapiti 103 by the hinds at Woburn Abbey) is distinctly red, brighter even than in the red deer, while the winter coat is tawny yellow, of a different tint from that of the East American race. No trace of red is observable in the Altai wapiti. The type specimens of Cervus luehdorji, which comprised two pairs, were obtained from Transbaikalia, and were probably brought from the Bureatish Steppe of Northern Manchuria by nomads. The original description runs as follows :—"The Isubra deer," as it is called, "is intermediate in height. Fig. 26.—Manchurian Wapiti Hind at Woburn Abbey. Photographed by the Duchess of Bedford. between the European red deer (C. elaphus) and the North American wapiti (C canadensis). In size it is closer to the former, in the shape of the antlers to the latter. Its hair is in winter brownish gray, in summer light brown ; the throat has a small whitish median streak ; the under lip is whitish, with three black spots, one small one in the middle, and two larger ones on each side. The strong mane is like that of the wapiti—in colour dark chestnut- brown, in places almost black ; in summer it disappears almost completely. The eye is smaller than in the red deer. The tail is much shorter than in either the red deer or the wapiti ; in the male it is only two-thirds of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, R. Ward, limited
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