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secure their prey. They conceal themselves and 

 imitate the cry of the fawn ; the solicitude of the 

 parent animal for her young, overcomes her usual 

 caution, and believing she hears the cry of her 

 offspring in distress, hurries towards the spot 

 where the hunter lies concealed, and falls an easy 

 prey. 



" A variety of this species, three specimens of 

 which occurred at Engineer Cantonment, had all 

 the feet white near the hoofs ; this white extremi- 

 ty is divided upon the sides of the foot by the 

 general colour of the leg, which extends down 

 near the hoof, leaving a white triangle in front, 

 of which the point is elevated rather higher than 

 the spurious hoofs. The black mark on the 

 lower lip, rather behind the middle of the sides, 

 is strongly characterized. 



" Total length, without the hair at the tip of the 

 tail, five feet four and three-fourths of an inch ; 

 length of the ear, six inches and a half; trunk of 

 the tail, nine inches and a half; weight, in Febru- 

 ary, one hundred and fifteen pounds." (Say.) 



Species. 



5. Cervus macrotis, {Great Eared Deer,) Say, 

 Maj. Long's Exped. to the Rocky Mountains, vol. 

 ii. p. 88. Black Tailed Deer ? Lewis and Clark, 

 vol. i. p. 77. Mule Deer, Ejusdem. 



Char. Essent. Light reddish-brown above ; 

 sides of the nose, and upper portion of the fore 



