CERVUS. ODONTOCCELUS. 4:5 



Color. Head and shoulders grizzled grayish brown; back griz- 

 zled whitish buffy; sides pale fulvous; rump patch and tail soiled 

 whitish; anterior portion of legs bright golden fulvous, posterior por- 

 tion buffy fulvous; mane grizzled grayish brown; thigh stripe faint; 

 ears buffy ochraceous to ochraceous fulvous; the inside, borders, and 

 outer base buffy white. 



Measurements. 'Type (two-year-old male). Total length, 2030; 

 tail vertebras, 140; hind foot, 620. Skull: basilar length, 358; zygo- 

 matic breadth, 155; occipito-sphenoid length, 79; palatal length, 230; 

 palatal floor of premaxillaries, 82." 



Genus 41. Odoiitocuelus. Deer. 



Odocoileus (sic] Rafin., Atlantic Journ., i, 1832, No. 3, p. 109, 

 fig. Type Odocoileus! speleus Rafin. Cervns dama ameri- 

 canus? Erxl. 



Mazama H. Smith, Griff. Anim. Kingd., v, 1827, p. 314. (nee 

 Rafin.) 



Dorcelaphus Glog., Hand- u. Hilfsb. Naturg., 1841, pp. xxxm, 140. 



Cariacus Less., Nouv. Tab. Regn. Anim., 1842, p. 173. 



Oplacerus Haldeman, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., i, 1842, p. 188. 



Redwicina Wagn., Schreb. Saugth., Suppl., iv, 1844, p. 373, Taf. 



CCXLVII H. 



Macrotis Wagn., Schreb. Saugth., Suppl., v, 1855, p. 368-372. 

 Eucervus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Ser., xvni, 1866, p. 338. 

 Otelaphus Fitzin., Sitzungsb. Math. -Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



LXVIII, Abth. i, 1874, p. 356. 

 Gymnotis Fitzin., Sitzungsb.. Math. -Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



LXXVIII, Heft 11, Abth. i, 1879, p. 343. 



92. Odontocoelus americanus (Erxleben). 



Cervus dama americanus Erxl., Syst. Regn. Anim., 1777, p. 312. 



Cervus virginianus Bodd., Elench. Anim., i, 1785, p. 136. 



Odocoileus! americanus Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 



n, 1901, p. 39, pi. xv. Zool. Ser. 

 VIRGINIAN WHITE-TAILED DEER. 



Type locality. Virginia. 



Geogr. Distr. Eastern North America from New York to Florida; 

 west to the Missouri River, excepting possibly Louisiana. 



a. Odouiocoehts aincricdinis horc'/Jis Miller. 



Odocoileus! americanus borealis Miller, Bull. N. Y. State Museum, 

 1900, p. 83. 



