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lype locality. Camp Crittenden, Arizona. (Wheeler Geog. and 

 Geol. Surv. ) 



Gt-nl. Char. Smaller than O. 7'irgi/u'atti/s; boms similar in shape. 



Gc-i>gr. Distr. Arizona and Mexico, from the Gila River Vallej' on 

 the north, in the woody mountain regions south to the City of Mexico. 



Color. Summer Pelage. Above pale dull fawn color tinged with 

 ochraceous, dorsal area, mouse gray; sides tawny or reddish brown; 

 throat, underparts and inner side of limbs and around digits white. 

 Tail above reddish brown, fringed with white, beneath pure white. 



Measurements. Height at withers, 812; at rump, 902: ears, 197. 

 Skull; occipital condyles to apex of intermaxillaries, 210; width 

 across orbits, 96; interzygomatic width, 90; interparoccipital width, 

 45; length of nasals, 68; occipital condyles to anterior edge of inter- 

 maxillaries, 210. 



60. crooki. (Dorcelaphiis^, Mearns, Proc. I'. S. Nat. Mus., Wash. 



1897, p. 468. 



Type locality. Dog Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. New Mexico, limits of range not defined. 



Genl. Char. Somewhat similar to O. columhianiis, smaller. 



Color. Summer Pelage. Female. Reddish fawn, darkest on 

 back; neck grayish drab, sides grayish cinnamon. Forehead black; 

 legs cream color; hairs on metatarsal gland sooty at base, tips white; 

 tail, upperside and tip black, beneath in middle white, naked basally. 



.Measurements. Total length, 1440; tail vertebra-, 195: ear above 

 crown, 220. 



61. columbianus. (^Ceriuis), Rich. Faun. Bor. Amer. , 1S29, p. 257. 



leausi, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped. Mamm., viii, p. 39, fig. p. 43. 



richanlsoni, Aud. & Bach. Quad. N. Am., iii, p. 27, pi. cvi. 



punctulatus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1S50, p. 239, pi. 28. 



Type locality. Mouth of the Columbia River. 



Geogr. Distr. British Columbia. V'ancouver Island and west of 

 the Cascade Mountains in Washington, Oregon and California. 



Genl. Char. Smaller than O. hemionus: ears shorter; metatarsal 

 gland shorter: tail black above. Antlers like those of Mule Deer. 



Color. Winter Pelage. General color brownish gray mottled 

 with black, darkest on dorsal line forming a streak from occiput to 

 root of tail. Top of head chestnut and black; black stripe over the 

 eyes meeting on forehead, chin white, behind is a black patch; face 

 gray; upper throat, posterior portion of underparts and base of tail 

 white; rest of underparts mottled similarly to the back, chest sooty: 

 legs dark cinnamon; inner side white. Tail above black, shading at 

 base into the color of the back, beneath white. 



