ARTIODACTYLA: CERVIDAE 801 



Type Locality. — Summit of the Dog Mountains, Hidalgo County, N. Mex. Alti- 

 tude, 6,129 feet. Range. — Desert ranges of southern New Mexico, including 

 Peloncilla, San Luis, Animas, Hatchet Mountains in the southwest, and pre- 

 sumably San Andres, Organ, and Franklin Mountains east of Rio Grande (V. 

 Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 53 (December 1931), p. 33, Mar. 1, 1932) 

 southward through Big Bend area of Texas (Borell and Bryant, Univ. California 

 Publ. Zool., vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 40-41, Aug. 7, 1942) into Chihuahua and Coahuila, 

 Mexico (Goldman and Kellogg, Journ. Mamm., vol. 20, No. 4, p. 507, Nov. 14, 

 1939) and westward, formerly at least, to Bill Williams Mountain, Coconino 

 County, and to Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Ariz. (Mearns, Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. 56, pp. 185, 191, Apr. 13, 1907). 



Odocoileus hemionus eremicus (Mearns) f* 



1897. Dorcelaphus hemionus eremicus Mearns, Preliminary diagnoses of new 

 mammals of the genera Mephitis, Dorcelaphus, and Dicotyles, from the 

 Mexican border of the United States, p. 4, Feb. 11, 1897. (Preprint of 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, p. 470, Dec. 24, 1897.) 



1898. Odocoileus hemionus eremicus Thompson-Seton, Forest and Stream, 

 vol. 51, No. 15, p. 286, Oct. 8, 1898. 



Type Locality.- — Sierra Seri, near Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico. 

 Range. — From type locality in desert region of northwestern Sonora northward 

 into valley of Colorado River as far as Parker, Ariz., westward through Chuck- 

 walla and Chocolate Mountains, Calif., to near Coxcomb and Granite Mountains 

 in northern Riverside County (formerly northwest through Imperial Valley to 

 Indio), and southward into northeastern Baja California (Cowan, California 

 Fish and Game, vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 235-236, July 1936) . 



Odocoileus hemionus sheldoni Goldmanf * 



1939. Odocoileus hemionus sheldoni Goldman, Journ. Mamm., vol. 20, No. 4, 

 p. 497, Nov. 15, 1939. 



Type Locality. — Tiburon Island, Sonora, Mexico. Range. — Restricted to 

 Tiburon Island. 



Subgenus ODOCOILEUS Kafincsque (white-tailed deer) 



Odocoileus virginianus virginianus (Zimmermann) * 



1777. Dama virginiana Zimmermann, Specimen zoologiae geographicae, . . . , 



p. 532. (A non-binomial work.) 

 1780. Dama virginiana Zimmermann, Geographische Geschichte . . . , vol. 2, 



pp. 24, 129. (Regarded as earliest valid name for Virginia white-tailed deer 



by Hershkovitz, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 61, p. 41, Apr. 30, 1948.) 

 1884. Cariacus virginianus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 



29), p. 592, Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 

 1898. O[docoileus] virginianus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 



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

 1919. Cariacus wisconsinensis Belitz, Wisconsin Conservationist, vol. 1, p. 1, 



November 1919. (Name proposed as a substitute for virginianus because 



author believed that the species originated in Wisconsin and not in Virginia. 



It is not based on a supposed local form peculiar to Wisconsin.) 

 Type Locality. — Virginia. Range. — From northern boundaries of Virginia, 

 West Virginia, and Kentucky, south to central Georgia, southern Alabama, and 



