er along the dorsal line; caudal
disk white, with a dark border; sides and limbs paler; ears light
coloured; lips and chin and a circle round eyes white. The male has
very long and shaggy hair on the lower part of the neck. The colour
of the coat varies but little; at times it is liver-coloured or
liver-brown, sometimes "bright pale rufous chestnut," with reddish
patches on the inner sides of the hips. Jerdon says: "The belly of
the male is dark brown, contrasting with the pale ashy hue of the
lower part of the flanks; the legs have a pale dusky median line.
In females the whole lower parts are albescent."

SIZE.--Length, 7 to 7-1/2 feet; height, 12 to 13 hands; tail, 5 inches.
The horns are very large and massive, with from ten to fifteen, or
even more, points. Jerdon states that even eighteen points have been
counted, but such cases are rare. Dr. Leith Adams says the largest
he ever measured were four feet round the curves. "A. E. W." in his
interesting papers on Kashmir game, published in _The Asian_, gives
the following measurements of two heads:--

Inches. Inches.
Length of horns. 47 46
Girth above brow antler. 7-3/4 8
Divergency at tips.
Greatest. 56 50
Least. 29 32
Where obtained. Sindh Valley Sindh Valley

I once saw a beautiful head at a railway-station, the property of
an officer who had just come down from Kashmir, the horns of which
appeared to me enormous. The owner afterwards travelled with me in
the train, and gave me his card, which I regret I lost, and, having
forgotten his name, I was never enabled to write to him, either on
the subject of the horns or to send him some papers he wanted on
Asiatic sheep.

Dr. Leith Adams writes: "They (the horns) are shed in March, and the
new horn is not completely formed till the end of October, when the
rutting season commences, and the loud bellowings of the stags are
heard all over the mountains." Of this bellowing Sir Victor Brooke
says it is just like the voice of the Wapiti stag, which this animal
closely resembles, and is quite different from that of the red deer.
"In the former it is a loud squeal, ending in a more gutteral tone;
in the latter it is a distinct roar, resembling that of a panther."
Sir Victor Brooke also points out another peculiarity in this deer:
namely, that "the second brow antler (bez) in _Ce