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mens at that height, but the adults seemed to be rather scarce, 

 or it might be they declined to meddle with our traps. The adult 

 animal is a bright reddish brown, but varies in the depths of its 

 hue, some individuals being very much darker than others. Like 

 all of its kind it is very agile, and it is a beautiful sight to see one 

 bound through the. thick forest, leaping all manner of obstacles 

 when it is once thoroughly frightened. It is readily distinguished 

 from its relative of British Columbia L. a columbianus, Rhoads, 

 * Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien., p. 241, 1895, by the brownish-white 

 pads under the toes. The young are colored very similar to the 

 adult, and exhibit even more distinctly the white of the pads 

 and especially at the ends of the toes, this being a rather conspic- 

 uous mark on the end of the hind foot above. 



Twelve specimens: Johnson's Ranch, Elwah River, i; 

 Boulder Creek, i ; Happy Lake, 4; Boulder Lake, 6. 



ORDER UNGULATA. 

 FAM. 



17. Cervus canadensis occidentalis. 



Cervus occidentalis. H. Smith, Griff. Anim. King., 1827, vol. 

 iv., pp. 101-103. 



Cervus roosevelti. Merr. Proc. Biol. Soc., Wash., 1897, vol. 

 xi. , p. 272. 



As much as we might wish that this fine animal should bear the 

 name of the present Governor of New York, yet there can be no 

 doubt that Smith described it more than seventy years ago (1. c.) 

 under the name of occidentalis. There is a slight confusion where 

 he speaks of the "tail long and dark," but as he was describ- 

 ing the species from a drawing, this was most likely an error 

 of the artist. The description of the horns, however, prove very 

 conclusively that it was a wapiti, and not a black-tailed deer (O. 

 hermionus, Rafin), that he had portrayed before him, and the 

 sketch he gives of the horn in the British Museum, pi. p. 94, with 

 which those of the drawing were compared, and which he stated 

 ''corresponds perfectly," shows that it was a species of wapiti 

 and nothing else that he was describing. 



The antlers of this wapiti vary in size, shape, number of 



prongs, and the presence of "cups" and palmation of the horn, 



in an extraordinary degree. The typical style, or what may be 



called such, of well-formed antlers cannot be distinguished from 



