70 ODONTOCCELUS. 



c.f Horns simple spikes. PAGE' 



a/ Upper parts pale drab gray; tail whitish, 



tip black 0. h. peninsula 78 



b/t Upper parts yellowish gray brown; tail 



bright rufous O. sinaloce 78 



americanus texensis (Dorcelaphus) , Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 1898, p. 23. 



a. texensis (Odocoileus!}, Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 40. 

 TEXAN DEER. Venado in Mexico for all Deer. 



Type locality. Fort Clark, Kinney County, Texas. 



Geogr. Distr. Texas and northern Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Size small; tip and edges of ears black; horns small, 

 incurved; molar teeth large; color pale. 



Color. Winter Pelage. Top of head black, sides light ash gray; 

 upper parts yellowish white and gray mixed; black line from crown 

 to root of tail; sides pale yellowish ash; chest fuliginous; rest of 

 under parts white; chin white, with black transverse cross-bar; jaws 

 light ash; throat white; legs reddish fawn mixed with gray and 

 black; tail black above, white below. 



Summer Pelage. Pale reddish. 



Measurements. Total length, 1585; tail vertebrae, 265; ear from 

 crown, 160; height at shoulder, 880. 



Antlers. Length of beam on outside curve, 440; widest expanse, 

 330; circumference of beam at base, 80. 



americanus couesi (Cervus), Coues and Yarrow, in Wheel. Geog. 



and Geol. Surv. West tooth Merid., 1875, p. 7 2 - 

 americanus couesi (Odocoileus!}, Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, 



p. 72. 



mexicanus Baird, N. Am. Mamm., 1875, P- ^53- (Part.) 

 virginianus var. Coues and Yarrow, in Wheel., Rep. Geog. and 



Geol. Surv. West looth Merid., v, 1875, pp. 72-75. 

 var. couesi Rothrock, Rep. Geog. and Geol. Surv. West looth 



Merid., v, 1875, p. 72. 

 COUES' DEER. 



Type locality. Camp Crittenden, Pima County, Arizona. 

 Geogr. Distr. Arizona and State of Sonora to City of Mexico. 

 Genl. Char. Smaller than 0. americanus, horns similar. 

 Color. Summer Pelage. Above pale dull fawn color, tinged with 

 ochraceous ; dorsal area mouse gray ; sides tawny or reddish brown ; 



t Animal not fully adult. 

 J Animal not fully adult. 



