April, 1914. Four New Mammals from Venezuela — Osgood. 137 



broad and heavily haired, the hairs at the tip extending 75-85 mm. 

 beyond the vertebrae and those on the sides 70-80 mm. ; median upper 

 side of tail Prout's brown, the hairs self-colored on the distal half of the 

 tail, broadly tipped with pale cinnamon on the proximal half and con- 

 tinuous with the color of the back; under side of tail white, the hairs 

 longer than the median dark ones of the upper side. 



5^m//.— Practically as in 0. savannarum ( = 0. spinosus); smaller 

 and having decidedly weaker dentition than 0. gymnotis as represented 

 by specimens from the Maracaibo region, Venezuela. 



Antlers. — The antlers of the type are in the velvet and were received 

 attached to the skin, the pedicels having been hacked through with a 

 machete in removing the skin. They are rather small (length on 

 outer curve 320 mm.) and only the right antler is normal, the left 

 having the beam depauperate and shorter than the back tine. The 

 right antler has four points, a strong well-developed subbasal snag 

 (70 mm.), a long slender bez or back tine directed upward and back- 

 ward (105 mm.), and a short trez (25 mm.) two thirds of the way from 

 the base of the bez to the point of the forwardly directed beam. The 

 burr is heavy and the subbasal snag together with the beam below the 

 bez is highly rugose. 



Measurements. — Type (dressed skin, measured dry) : Head and body 

 1460; tail vertebrae 130; hind foot 340; ear from crown 125; ear from 

 notch iio. Sloill of type: Greatest length 244; basilar length 220; 

 tip of premaxillae to end of palate 157; zygomatic width 100; mastoid 

 width 82; interorbital width 63; median length of nasals 72; greatest 

 width of nasals 27.6; width between outer sides of second upper molars 

 69; length of upper toothrow 71; lower too throw 72.2. 



Remarks. — So far as known, all the deer of the genus Odocoileus 

 previously described from northern South America inhabit the low- 

 lands in the arid or semi -arid savannas, regions of light intermittent 

 forest or open grasslands. They are short-haired and largely ochraceous 

 or "reddish" in color and their hoofs are narrow and pointed. The 

 species above described evidently inhabits the paramos and the scat- 

 tered tongues of forest surrounding them at considerable elevation 

 above the hot regions. Its full long pelage leaves no room for doubt 

 that its habitat is relatively cool and moist. Even if they were abun- 

 dant, deer would be difficult to obtain in these mountain regions; but it 

 is probable this species is rare, since no specimen of it has been ob- 

 tained previously, although the Merida region is one from which much 

 natural history material has been sent for a number of years. 



Several names have been given to deer of the genus Odocoileus from 



