104 Merriam New North American Deer. 



across white chin ; sides of face and neck all round dark grizzled gray, 

 becoming dusky between forelegs; axillary and inguinal regions, posterior 

 aspect of forelegs and inner side of thigh white ; sides of bell}' and legs 

 pale grayish-fulvous. Metatarsal gland a small spot 10 mm. long sur 

 rounded by white hairs, on outer side of metatarsus midway between end 

 of calcaneum and tip of hoof. Tarsal gland normal. 



Cranial characters. Skull small and light with short nasals, small ante- 

 orbital vacuities, shallow lachrymal pits, broad anterior (sublachrymal) 

 extension of jugals, broad orbitosphenoids, and remarkably small and 

 narrow audital bullre. The skull and teeth resemble those of 0. acapul- 

 ceiisis more closely than they do any other deer known to me, but may 

 be distinguished from acapulceusis by the shortness of the nasals, great 

 breadth of the orbitosphenoid anteriorly and of the anterior extension of 

 the jugal, and the small size of the audital bullse. 



Measurements. Type specimen, $ of 2d year, not full grown ; measured 

 in flesh : Total length 1250 ; tail vertebra 170 ; hind foot 360. Height at 

 shoulder 650. Ear in dry skin : from anterior base 140 ; from notch 120. 



