March, 1904. Mammals of Southern California — Elliot. 2$i> 



phylla and scrub-oaks. Here a small series of a new form of Perog- 

 nathits was taken. Three days were passed at Bailey's Ranch, at 

 the headwaters of Piru Creek, about twenty miles from its mouth, 

 which is near the type locality of Euderma maculata, but nothing 

 resembling this species was seen. "The ranchers had never seen any 

 bat answering the coloration of Euderma, but had killed Antrozons, 

 Vespertilio, and Pipistreltus." From here Mr. Heller went to Neenach, 

 Antelope Valley, where was a small herd of antelope that were 

 protected. He had a permit to take a male and female, and with 

 the acquisition of these, his journey was brought to a close. 



ORDER UNGULATA. 



FAM. CERVID/E. 

 *ODONTOC(ELUS. 

 Odontocoelus hemionus. 



Cervus hemionus Rarin., Amer. Month. Mag., 1, 181 7, p. 436. 

 Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 42. 



2 Specimens J $ : Long Canon, Mt. Whitney. 



"Deer were secured only at the head of Long Canon, near Mt. 

 Whitney, at 8,500 feet elevation. In this part of the Sierras 

 their tracks were not rare on brushy hillsides and rockv ridges. 

 The species in this region is subject to vertical seasonal migra- 

 tions. The winter months are spent on the lower slopes of the 

 range along both the eastern and western sides, until the early 

 summer, when a gradual upward migration takes place until 

 midsummer to the upper limits of the manzanita and Ceanoikus 

 brush, at about 9,500 feet altitude. This marks their extreme 

 upper limits, the majority being found 1,000 or 2,000 feet lower 

 where the brush is heavier. Their tracks are seldom seen in 

 open pine forests or in meadows. Deer seldom occur on the 

 Inyo Mountains, except occasionallv in winter as strays from the 

 Sierras. No deer occur on the ranges east of the Inyo Moun- 

 tains. Their absence in the high pine-clad Panamint Range is 

 no doubt due to the lack of brushy areas.' In the hills about 

 Fort Tejon, in the Tehachapi and Mt. Pinos Ranges, deer tracks 

 were abundant in the heavy oak and Ceanoikus chaparral. In 

 the foothills of the San Jacinto Range near Palm Springs and 



*If it is necessary to burden our nomenclature with Rafmesque's generic 

 term, founded upon a tooth of some undeterminable animal, let us at all events 

 spell it correctly, odiiuc, tooth, KoJAoq, hollowed — Odontocoelus. 



