40 ODOCOILEUS. 



Color. Summer Pelage. Upper parts and outside of limbs red- 

 dish brown. 



Autumn Pelage. Yellowish gray mixed with black; chin and throat 

 white, dusky spot on side of chin. Throat white; underpart of neck 

 brownish gray; legs pale brownish yellow, underparls white. Tail 

 above reddish brown, beneath white. 



Measurements. Total length, nose to end of tail vertebr;p, 2287; 

 tail vertebra, 305; nose to occiput, 448. 



b.—texensis. [Dorcelaphus), Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc.Wash., 1898, p. 23. 



Type locality. Fort Clark, Kinney county, Texas. 



Geogr. Distr. Texas and Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Size small; tip and edge of ears black; liorns small, 

 incurved; molar teeth large; color pale. 



Color. Winter Pelage. Top of head black, sides light ash gray. 

 Upper parts yellowish white and gray mixed; black line from crown 

 to root of tail; sides pale yellowish ash; chest fuliginous, rest of under- 

 parts white, chin white with black transverse cross bar, jaws light 

 ash. Throat white. Legs reddish fawn mixed with gray black. 



Measurements. Total length, 1585; tail vertebra", 265; ear from 

 crown, 160; height at shoulder, 880. 



Antlers: length of beam on outside curve, 440; widest expanse, 

 330; circumference of beam at base, 80. 



c. — osceola. (Cariaeus), Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1896, p. 26. 



Type locality. Citronelle, Citrus County, Florida. 



Geogr. Distr. Florida. 



Genl. Char. Size small, color dark. 



Color. Autumn Pelage. Upper parts dark and pale brown 

 mixed; dark brown line from between the ears along neck and back; 

 sides and lower part of neck and flanks, cinnamon; throat and under- 

 parls of body white; ears dark brown, inside white. Tail above the 

 hairs dark reddish brown tipped with cinnamon, beneath white. 



Midsummer Pelage. Above bright russet cinnamon; tail broadly 

 edged with black at base and black above at tip. 



Measurements. Total length, male, 1600; tail vertebra, 280. 



Antlers, widest expanse, 413-636. 



d. — couesi . {Cervus, Rothrock ms.), Coues & Yarrow in Wheel. Geog. 



and Gaol. Surv., 1875, p. 72. 

 tnexicanus, Baird, N. Am. Mamm., 1857, p. 653, (Part). 

 77>x/«/Vz«?«, var. , Coues & Yarr. Rep. Geog. Surv. West looMerid.. 



1875, V, pp. 72, 75. 

 var Couesi. Rothrock, Rep. Geog. Surv. West 100 Merid., 1875, 



V, pp. 72, 75- 



