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Color. Head and shoulders grizzled grayish brown; back griz- 

 zled whitish buflfy; sides pale fulvous; rump patch and tail soiled 

 whitish ; anterior portion of legs bright golden fulvous, posterior por- 

 tion buffy fulvous; mane grizzled grayish brown; thigh stripe faint; 

 ears buffy ochraceous to ochraceous fulvous; the inside, borders, and 

 outer base buffy white. 



Measurements. "Type (two-year-old male). Total length, 2030; 

 tail vertebrae, 140; hind foot, 620. Skull: basilar length, 358; zygo- 

 matic breadth, 155; occipito-sphenoid length, 79; palatal length, 230; 

 palatal floor of premaxillaries, 82." 



Genus 41. Ocloiitoc(K^lu8. Deer. 



Odocoileus (5ic) Rafin., Atlantic Journ., i, 1832, No. 3, p. 109, 



fig. Type Odocoileus! speleus Rafin. = Cervtis dama ameri- 



canusf Erxl. 

 Mazama H. Smith, Griff. Anim. Kingd., v, 1827, p. 314. (nee 



Rafin.) 

 Dorcelaphus Glog., Hand- u. Hilfsb. Naturg., 1841, pp. xxxiii, 140. 

 Cariacus Less., Nouv. Tab. Regn. Anim., 1842, p. 173. 

 Oplacertis Haldeman, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., i, 1842, p. 188. 

 Reduncma Wagn., Schreb. Saugth., Suppl., iv, 1844, p. 373, Taf. 



CCXLVII H. 

 Macrotis Wagn., Schreb. Saugth., Suppl., v, 1855, p. 368-372. 

 Eucervus Gray,. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Ser., xviii, 1866, p. ^t,S. 

 Otelaphtis Fitzin., Sitzungsb. Math.-Nat. CI. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



Lxviii, Abth. I, 1874, p. 356. 

 Gymnotis Fitzin., Sitzungsb. Math.-Nat. CI. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



Lxxviii, Heft II, Abth. i, 1879, p. 343. 



92. Odontocoelus americanus (Erxleben). 



Cervus dama americanus Erxl., Syst. Regn. Anim., 1777, p. 312. 



Cervus virginianus Bodd., Elench. Anim., i, 1785, p. 136. 



Odocoileus! americamis Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 

 II, 1901, p. 39, pi. XV. Zool. Ser. 

 Virginian White-tailed Deer. 



Type locality. Virginia. 



Geogr. Distr. Eastern North America from New York to Florida; 

 west to the Missouri River, excepting possibly Louisiana. 



a. Odontoccelus americanus borealis Miller. 



Odocoileus! americanus borealis Miller, Bull. N. Y. State Museum, 

 1900, p. 83. 



