ODOC'OIJ.KI'S MA/A.MA (KKN IS. 15 



Odocoileus thomasi Meiriuiii. Biological Suive^^ collection. 



IVoc. F.inl. S,.c. Wash., XII, pp. l()-.'-l():;. .Vpril 'AO, ISMS. 



TTSOti. Skin unci skull. Adult male. lluohui^taM. Chiapas, Mexico. 

 February 22, iSiX;. Collected by K. W . Nelson and E. A. Gold- 

 man. Oi'iginal number HH;")!*. 



Wt'll-madc skin in iiood condition; skull perl't't;t. 



Genus MAZAMA. 



Mazama pandora Merriani. liioloo-ieal Sui\ ey colltMtion. 



I'r.x'. I'.iol. Sue. Wash., XIV, j.p. lO.VKKi. .Inly 19. ]<i(»l. 



1082T8. Skin and skull. .Vdull male. Tunkas. Yucatan, Mexico. 

 February 15. l!»til. Collected by K. W. Nelson and E. A. Gold- 

 man. Oriii'inal number 14544. 



Well-made skin in good condition; skull with repaired frai'tures of left maxil- 

 lary and zygomata; anterior part of walls of orbits, left side of palate, pterygoids, 

 and most of vomer absent; last left upper molar missing; otherwise })erfect. 



Genus CERVUS. 



Cervus merriami Nlelson. 



Bull. Anier. Mus. Nat. Hist., XVI, p. 7, January Iti, 1902. 



111039. Skin and sknll. Adult male. Head of Black River, White 

 Mountains, Aiizona. August, 1SJS«1. Collected by K. W. Nelson. 

 Catalogued J idy U. IKOl. 



The specimen was in the National Museum for many years without having 

 been entered in the catalogues. The skin had data attat;hed, but the skull was 

 without data and it was not known to l)elong with the skin until the summer of 



1901. In the spring of 1901 the antlers were sawed off the skull. As both ant- 

 lers and skull were without number or other data, they were thought to be of 

 little value, and no special care was taken of them with the result that the main 

 part of the skull became misplaced. In tiie summer of 1901 the antlers, in 

 the velvet, were recognized by Mr. Nelson as belonging to the skin which he 

 had collected fifteen years before. A search was made for the skull, but only 

 the lower jaw could be found. Mr. Nelson described the species without the 

 complete specimen. (Cranial characters were obtainetl, however, from a skull 

 in the American Mu.-^eum of Natural History, New York City.) In September, 



1902, the missing and main part of tiie skull was found in one of the .Museum's 

 storage sheds, where the antlers were originally discovi-red. 



The skin is a tanned pelt, in fair condition, worn suunuer jjelage. The aiUlers, 

 in velvet, are nearly perfect; one tip is sligiitly injured. The main part of the 

 skull is perfect. The lower jaw is injured as follows: The crowns of all the 

 incisors and lower canines are broken off and the ascending ramus of the right 

 half of the mandible is broken away. 



The skull and antlers are at present hung on the wall of the office of the divi- 

 sion of mammals. 



Cervus nannodes Merriam. Biological Survey collection. 



Troc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVII I, pp. 23-25, February 2, 1905. 



