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Title: Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Ward, Rowland
Subjects: Game Game and game-birds Hunting trophies
Publisher: London (England) : Rowland Ward, limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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elaphus maral). In this race of the red deer, which may intergrade with some of thewestern races by means of the Carpathian form, the height at the shoulderreaches to about 4;- feet, and the build is stouter, the neck thicker,and the face in the hinds longer and more pointed than in the true reddeer. The summer coat of immature animals is very generallymarked with numerous yellowish spots, and at all ages is much less redthan in the western races, being, in fact, grey in September. The colourof the winter coat is dark slaty grey on the back, with the rump-patchof a very bright yellow, and a large amount of black on the shoulders. RED DEER 29 thighs, and under-parts ; this blackness of the under-parts also character-ising the summer coat. The large and massive antlers are generallyless complex than those of the western races, the number of points beingseldom more than eight on a side, and frequently only six ; while thebez-tine, which may be wanting, is often shorter than the long and
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Antlers of Eastern Red Deer, from the Carpathians, in the Powerscourt Collection. upwardly curved brow-tine, and the fourth tine is generally more dis-tinct from the crown. The average weight is given as about 560 lbs. The typical locality of the maral is the Caspian provinces of NorthernPersia, whence this or allied races extend into the Crimea, and prob-ably Asia Minor, and so on into Transcaucasia, the Caucasus, probablyCircassia, and the Galician Carpathians. In the Marmaros district of 30 RECORDS OF BIG GAME the Hungarian Carpathians there occurs, as stated above, a stuntedform of maral, known as the Pohsh stag, beHeved to be an immigrantfrom GaHcia. In the Bukovina district of the GaHcian Carpathianssportsmen recognise a large grey stag in the plains (apparently thetrue maral) and a smaller and darker mountain race (C. elaphus mon-tanus). It is noteworthy that specimens from the Caucasus haveshorter faces than those from Northern Persia, and thus approximateto the western types.

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