Dr. N. Scvcrtzoff on the Mammals of Turkestan. 377 XXXVI. — The Mammals of Turkestan. By Dr. N. SiiviiirrzoFF. [Continued from p. .3.30.] 77. Cervus maral (C. canadensis^ var. ?). The specimens from the Thian-Slian resemble tliose from the Altai in size, slia})e of horns, and colonr ; the latter are now in the Moscow Museum. The Tliian-Shan specimens arc somewhat darker, and })crha|)s larger in size. The male winter specimens collected l>y me resemble the specimen in the Moscow Museum ; and I also obtained one in the summer dress. This species is very close to C. cmiadensis^ and is much more distinct from C. elaphus. The principal dirterences are in the size, length of tail, and colour, and to a certain degree also in the horns. Length from head to the tail 7' S" to 8' ; length of tail 2" ; length of each horn 4', or even 4^' ; height at the shoulders 4' 10" to 5'. The measure-ments of C. canadensis are about the same ; the tail, however, is longer, say about 4". Length of C. elaphus G^' to 7', seldom up to 7{' ; height 3' 10'' to 4' ; tail 5" to G" ; horn up to 3', and very seldom longer. The colour of this species on the head and neck, which are covered with rather longer hair than the rest of the body, is brownish grey j each hair has black and pale greyish-brown rings. The shoulders, the back, the sides, and the thighs are brownish grey, shaded with yellow, considerably lighter than the neck ; round the tail, on the rump, and part of the thighs there is a broad, round, yellowish spot, separated from the other colour of the body by a dark-grey stripe, which is sharply marked towards the tail, whilst it gradually shades off into the grey colour of the back. The tail under-neath is bare, and above is covered with light-yellow hair, nuirked with a greyish-brown line down the middle. The breast, the belly, and the legs are of a clear dark brown cohmr. These specimens, two adult males and a young one, were obtained at the end of (October in the Alatau, cast of Vernoe, on the sinnmits of Turgeni, near the eastern portion of the Issik-kul ; the colour is similar on all the three sjjceimens. The frniale specimen is dark brown, the s]K>t at the tail is small, light brown, without a stripe : the hair is rough, not close and short ; on the neck tt is hardly longer at all than on the other parts of the body. This example was obtained at Ann. i{: Mof/. N. Ilisf. f^cv. \. IV. xviii. 26
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