While at Pilawin I was in great doubt to what race these Yenisei wapiti should be referred. Recently, however, Dr. P. Matschie, of the Berlin Museum, has published a paper on the wapiti of Central Asia,[3] in which important information is given with regard to the characteristics of the antlers of the different races, and the localities where the type specimens were obtained. The race here termed _C. c. asiaticus_, which Dr. Matschie calls _Cervus sibiricus_,[4] is stated to be typically from the Sayansk and Baikal Mountains. With this race is provisionally associated the wapiti from Krasnoyarsk, although it is added that the latter may be distinct. Now as the Sayansk _C. c. asiaticus_ was stated by its describer Severtzow to be lighter in winter than the Thian Shan _C. c. songaricus_, it is highly improbable that it should be very much darker in summer. I therefore think that Dr. Matschie’s suggestion as to the distinctness of the Yenisei wapiti may very probably be well founded; and if this should prove to be the case when specimens are available for comparison, the race might well be named in honour of Count Potocki. [3] _Sitzungsberichte Ges. naturfor. Freunde_, Berlin, 1907, p. 222; see also an article by myself in the _Field_ of 11th January 1908. [4] As I was the first to attempt to put right the confused nomenclature of Severtzow, I consider that the names I have adopted should stand. [Illustration: A VIEW IN PILAWIN WITH ASIATIC WAPITI IN THE FOREGROUND.] As already mentioned, the red deer group is represented in the Pilawin preserve by the true Persian maral (_Cervus elaphus maral_) and by the maral of the Caucasus. From wapiti the hinds of these deer are distinguishable at a glance by their red coats and the larger amount of white and black on the sides of the rump-patch as well as by the longer tail. Unfortunately, I had no opportunity of seeing the Persian and Caucasian red deer side by side, but I am informed by Mr. Sokalski that they are practically indistinguishable, as, indeed, might be expected from geographical considerations. [Illustration: CAUCASIAN RED DEER.] In the large amount of black on the thighs they differ, according to the same informant, from Carpathian deer, which are more uniformly coloured, with the general tint decidedly darker.