26 Bangs The Florida Deer. 



it undergoes no decided change in pelage between winter and 

 summer. The hair is about the same color, consistency, and 

 length throughout the year, with only the change due to actual 

 wearing and fading. Apart from size there are some very de 

 cided cranial and dental characters which separate the two 

 species. The most striking of these is the shape and size of the 

 nasal and maxillary bones and the very large molar and pre- 

 molar teeth of the Florida animal. 



In the years 1893 and 1894 Mr. F. L. Small collected in Citrus 

 county, Florida, five fine specimens of the Florida deer. These 

 are now in the collection of E. A. and O. Bangs, and, with two 

 superb deer lately sent me by Mr. Alvah G. Dorr from Bucks- 

 port, Maine, have served in defining the Florida species. Inci 

 dentally I have examined a large number of skulls and skins 

 from various localities in the northeast. In comparing deer 

 from Florida and Maine we have, of course, the extreme of dif 

 ferentiation in the east, but, as far as I have been able to ascer 

 tain, the deer of Virginia and Carolina does not differ essentially 

 from that of Maine. 



The Florida deer may be described as follows : 



Cariacus osceola sp. nov. 



Type No. 2394, coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs, female, young adult (2 to 3 

 years old) from Citronelle, Citrus county, Florida, coll. by F. L. Small, 

 December 29, 1893. Original No. 1107. 



General characters. Size small ; general color dark ; hair short and fine 

 at all seasons. 



Color (of type specimen in fresh autumnal pelage). Upper parts of 

 back, neck, and head a mixed dark and light brown, each hair banded, 

 dark brown at the tip, then yellowish brown, then dark brown and Isa 

 bella color at the base. The dark brown color predominates in a narrow 

 median band along the back and is most intense on the neck and between 

 the ears. On the flanks and along the sides the hairs are not banded, 

 but are Isabella color at base and cinnamon at tips ; sides and under sur 

 face of neck cinnamon ; throat, belly, inside of legs, and arms white ; ears 

 sparsely haired; upper surface dark brown, many of the hairs tipped 

 with yellow ; inside surface white ; the hairs of the upper side of tail are 

 dark -red brown at base and cinnamon at tips ; under side of the tail 

 white, the hairs very long ; eyelashes jet black. 



An old male topotype (No. 2392, July 17, 1894), in worn midsummer 

 coat, has lost the banding of the hairs and is a bright russet cinnamon 

 above, which extends to the front of the eyes. The muzzle is very 

 sparsely haired, and of a grizzled hair brown color, with a black spot 



