ODOCOILEUS 



Summer Pelage. General color red or reddish yellow. 

 Measurements. Total length, 1780: tail vertebrse, 152-228: height 

 at withers, 863. 



a.—sWcensis. {Odocoilens), Merr. Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., 1898, p. loi. 



Type locality. Sitka, Alaska. 



Geogr. Distr. Alaska, limits of range not defined. 



Geril. Char. Similar to O. columbianus; ears shorter. 



Color. Slimmer Pelage. Fulvous; face grizzled gray; dusky 

 patch from eyes half way to nose; ears mixed gray and dusky; poste- 

 rior part of belly, inner side of thigh and strip on hind part of fore 

 leg white, remainder of underparts pale fulvous; tarsal gland black 

 with fulvous border. Tail above like back at base grading into black, 

 beneath white. 



Measurements. Female from island near Sitka. Total length, 

 1297; height at withers. 902; tail vertebr;e, 165. 



h.—scaphiolui', {O<iocoileu<:), Merr. Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., 1898, 



p. lOI. 



T)pe loeality. Laguna Ranch, Gabilan Range, California. 



Geogr. Distr. Limits of range not defined. Gabilan Range, Cal- 

 ifornia. 



Genl. Char. Similar to O. eoliimhianus: ears larger: colors paler. 

 Skull: lachrymal pit longer and narrower anteriorly. 



Color. Winter Pelage. Grizzled gra}' above; beneath "with 

 white areas as in columbianus.'' 



Measurements. Total length, 1463; tail vertebra, 135; hind foot, 

 452; ear (skin) from anterior base 178, from notch 168: breadth, 106. 



62. hemionus. [Cervus], Rafin. Amer. Month. Mag., i, p. 436. 



macrotis. Say. Narr. Long's Exped. Rocky Mts., 1823, 11, p. 88. 



auritus. Ward, Desc. Etats Unis, 1820, v, p. 540. 



Type locality. Siou.K River, probably on eastern border of South 

 Dakota. 



Geogr. Distr. West of the Missouri River from Fort George, 

 south to Texas, westwards through Nevada to latitude of San Fran- 

 cisco, including North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, 

 Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California, Oregon 

 and Washington. 



Genl. Char. Size large, body heavy; ears very large, thickly 

 haired; tail moderate, round, white tipped with a black tuft, naked 

 beneath basally; metatarsal gland occupying upper half of outer side 

 of canon bone; tarsal gland present. Antlers with short sub-basal 

 snag, the beam from this projecting outward and then upward fork- 

 ing dichotomously, both prongs nearly equal and then again divide. 



