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a closely related subfossil form. For use of this name in place of Cariacus 

 Lesson, Nouveau tableau du regne animal, . . . , mammiferes, p. 173, 1842, 

 and Dorcelaphus Gloger, Gemeinniitziges Hand- und Hilfsbuch der Natur- 

 geschichte, Breslau, vol. 1, p. 140, 1841, see Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 12, pp. 99-100, Apr. 30, 1898.) 



Subgenus EUCERVUS » Gray (black-tailed deer) 



1866. Eucervus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 18, p. 338, October 

 1866. (Type, Cervus macrotis Say =Cervus hemionus Rafinesque.) 



Odocoileus hemionus hemionus (Rafinesque) * 



1817. Cervus hemionus Rafinesque, Amer. Monthly Mag., vol. 1, No. 6, p. 436, 



October 1817. 

 1823. Cervus macrotis Say, in Long, Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh 



to the Rocky Mountains, . . . , vol. 2, p. 88. (Mora River, near present 



town of Mora, N. Mex.) 

 1884. Cariacus macrotis True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), 



p. 592, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1898. Odocoileus hemionus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 12, 

 p. 100, Apr. 30, 1898. 



1899. Cariacus virgultus Hallock, Forest and Stream, vol. 52, No. 21, p. 404, 

 May 27, 1899. (Near Hallock, Kittson County, Minn. See V. Bailey, 

 North Amer. Fauna No. 49 (December 1926), p. 41, Jan. 8, 1927.) 



Type Locality. — Mouth of Big Sioux River, S. Dak. (V. Bailey, North 

 Amer. Fauna No. 49 (December 1926), p. 41, Jan. 8, 1927). Range.— Great 

 Plains, Rocky Mountains and Great Basin, from west end of Great Slave Lake 

 and Simpson in Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, and Liard River 

 Valley in extreme northern British Columbia at least to Lower Liard crossing 

 (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 175, Jan. 24, 1947), south- 

 ward to Kansas (extinct; Lantz, Kansas State Agric. College Bull. 129 (Decem- 

 ber 1904), p. 342, April 1905), mountains in northern half of New Mexico 

 (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 53 (December 1931), p. 29, Mar. 1, 1932), 

 Grand Canyon National Park in north-central Arizona, southern Nevada (Hall, 

 Mammals of Nevada, pp. 621-628, July 1, 1946), Tehama and Mono Counties, 

 Calif. (Cowan, California Fish and Game, vol. 22, No. 3, p. 210, July 1936) ; 

 and from Red River Valley, Manitoba (Soper, Journ. Mamm., vol. 27, No. 2, 

 p. 151, May 14, 1946), southern Cass County, Minn. (Gunderson, Journ. 

 Mamm., vol. 29, No. 2, p. 184, May 14, 1948), North and South Dakota, and 

 Nebraska (Swenk, Studies Zool. Lab. Univ. Nebraska No. 89, p. 17, September 

 1908) westward to summit of Cascade Mountains in Washington (Dalquest, 

 Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 403, Apr. 9, 1948) and Oregon 

 (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 55 (June), pp. 83-86, Aug. 27, 1936) . 



Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis Merriamf* 



1898. Odocoileus columbianus sitkensis Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 



vol. 12, p. 100, Apr. 30, 1898. 

 1936. Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis Cowan, California Fish and Game, vol. 

 22, No. 3, p. 224, July 1936. 



a Mule deer of Pacific Coastal Region revised by Cowan, California Fish and Game, vol. 

 22, No. 3, pp. 155-246, July 1936. 



