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ZOOLOGY. 



GARIAGUS VIRGINIANUS MAGEUEUS, (Eaf.) Goues. 

 WMte-tailed Deer. 



Cervus macrourm, KAF., Am. Monthly Mag.,i, 1817, 430. II. SMITH, Griff. An. 

 iv, 1827, 134 ; v, 1827, 310 (Kansas). 



Germs Icucurus, DOUGL., Zool. Journ., iv, 1829, 330. RICH., F. B.-A., i, 1829, 258; 

 Zool. Beechey's Voy., 1839, 10. WAGN., Suppl. Schreb., iv, 1844, 375 ; v, 

 1855, 372. PUCH., Mon. tin Gerf. Arch, tin Mus., vi, 1852, 322. AUD. & 

 BACH., Q. N. A., iii, 1853, 77, pi. 118. NEWB., P. R. E. Rep., vi, 1857, 67. 

 SUCKL., P. E. E. Rep., xii, 1859, 134. BAIRD, Mamiu. N. A., 1857, 649. 

 COUES, Am. Nat,, i, 1868, 537. TENNEY, Man. Zool., 1866, 98. STEV., U. 

 S. Geol. Surv. Terr. 1870, 1871. 4C2. 



Lonu-tailcd Red Deer, LEWIS & CLAKK. 



Specimens. 



Observed in Colorado, where it was common in the vicinity of swampy 

 valleys. 



There is no question of the impropriety of separating this animal 

 specifically from C. virginianus. The point, indeed, is whether the differ- 

 ences are sufficient to constitute a fair geographical race. We, however, 

 present it provisionally as such. The above name is adopted from the Ccrnts 

 macrourus of Rafinesque, of prior date to leticurus of Douglas ; the two being 

 undoubtedly synonymous. The animal is of general distribution in the 

 West, like the true C. virginianus in the East, and is associated in most of 

 its range with the very different C. macrotis. 



GARIACUS V1EGLNIANOS, var. 

 Dwarf Deer of Arizona. 



Ccrvus mexieanus, BAIIID, Mainm. N. A., 1857, 653 (whether of authors"?). 

 Cervus virginianus var. emu-si, ROTHKOOK, MSS. 



No. G. r )7, Cam]) Crittenden, Ariz., Sept., 1874, Dr. J. T. fiotlirock ; $, 

 with horns in tho velvet, The animal to be here described is clearly of the 

 C. virginianus type, as shown by the characters of the horns and tail, but 

 is much smaller and otherwise different. 



