ODONTOCCELUS. 78 



Color. Upper parts brown, hair tipped with fawn; dorsal line 

 darker; whitish mark on each side of muzzle, and one above and 

 below each eye; chin, throat, inner sides of the upper part of fore 

 legs, inguinal region, and inner side of thighs white; rest of under 

 parts rufous fawn, as are also the outer side of thighs and feet; tarsal 

 glands reddish brown; tail above at base fawn, terminal portion 

 black, beneath white. 



Measurements. Head and body, 1120; tail, 100; hind foot, with 

 hoofs, 290; ear from notch, 88 (skin). Skull: greatest length, 201; 

 basal length, 180; greatest breadth, 86.5; nasals, 64X22.5; muzzle to 

 orbit, 103; breadth of braincase, 58; muzzle to anterior premolar, 61 ; 

 alveolar length of upper tooth row, 65 ; of lower tooth row, 26. 



53. *truii (Odocoiletis!), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xn, 1898, p. 



103 (note). 



clavatus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, p. 417. (nee H. Smith). 

 TRUE'S DEER. 



Type locality. Segovia River, Honduras. 



Geogr. Distr. Honduras, Central America. Extent of range not 

 known. 



Genl. Char. Size medium; metatarsal gland present. Antlers 

 simple spikes, directed backward in line of face. 



Color. Summer Pelage. Bright chestnut ; dusky brown band from 

 nose to forehead, which is darker than face; orbital ring whitish ; white 

 spot on each side of nostril and one on lower lip; head beneath and 

 throat white; back bright chestnut; chest and flanks pale chestnut; 

 neck pale grayish chestnut; abdomen, inguinal region and inside of 

 fore legs and thighs white; tail above tawny, beneath white; hairs of 

 tarsal gland white. 



Antlers. Slightly lyrate in form; beams straight, slender, laterally 

 compressed and pointed ; basal two-thirds rugose. 



Measurements. (Skin.) "Height at shoulder, 732 , length of head, 

 246; tail to end of hairs, 239; length of antler, 88; juv." (True, 1. c.) 

 Skull: basal length, 200-220; length of upper tooth row, 66; lower 

 tooth row, 73 ; length of three lower premolars, 28. 



54. fcostaricensis (Odocoileus!), Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiv, 



P- 35- 



* The animal with red pelage as described by Dr. True, will stand for the 

 type clavatus=truii. The example mentioned by Dr. True, as in "Winter 

 Pelage," proves on examination and on the statement to me of Mr. Townsend, 

 who obtained it, to have been killed in July. It is a larger animal than truii, 

 and very differently colored , and cannot be supposed to exhibit a pelage other 

 than that of summer. It possibly represents a separate race. 



t This may possibly be the same as O. nentoralis, the following species, exam- 

 ples of which from Costa Rica are stated to be in the British Museum. See 

 Lydekker, Deer of all Lands, 1898, p. 265. 



