ARTIODACTYLA: CERVIDAE 803 



Range. — Formerly Pacific coastal region in southwestern Washington and north- 

 eastern Oregon, south to Umpqua River Valley; now nearly extinct, except for 

 a local colony on islands and so-called "tidelands" along both sides of lower 

 Columbia River in Washington; also a number estimated at between 200 and 300 

 in the State White-tailed Deer Refuge of 19,500 acres between Roseburg and 

 North Umpqua River, Oreg. Formerly intergrading on the east with ochrourus. 



Odocoileus virginianus couesi (Coues and Yarrow) f* 



1875. Cariacus virginianus var. couesi Coues and Yarrow, Report upon the 

 collections of mammals, . . . , in Rep. Geogr. Geol. Explor. and Surv., West 

 of One Hundredth Merid. (Wheeler), vol. 5 (Zool.), p. 72. 

 1895. Dorcelaphus couesi J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, 



p. 200, June 29, 1895. 

 1898. Odocoileus couesi Thompson-Seton, Forest and Stream, vol. 51, No. 15, 



p. 286, Oct. 8, 1898. 

 1903. Odocoileus battyi J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 19, p. 

 591, Nov. 12, 1903. (Rancho Santuario, an old "Spanish Grant" ranch on 

 the plains, altitude 7,000 feet, northwestern Durango, Mexico.) 

 1915. O[docoileus] v[irginianus] baileyi Lydekker, Catalogue of the ungu- 

 late mammals in the ... British Museum, vol. 4, p. 158. (Accidental re- 

 naming of battyi. ) 

 1915. Odocoileus virginianus couesi Lydekker, Catalogue of the ungulate mam- 

 mals in the . . . British Museum, vol. 4, pp. 158, 164. 

 Type Locality. — Camp Crittenden [now Crittenden], on Sonoita Creek, be- 

 tween Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Ariz. Range. — 

 Mountain regions, especially steeper slopes, from Colorado River (Ehrenberg) 

 and Mogollon Mesa in southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico (Datil 

 Mountains), west of Rio Grande Valley, south along Sierra Madre through cen- 

 tral and eastern Sonora (west to Cobota and Pozo de Luis), western Chihuahua, 

 northern Sinaloa, Durango, northeastern Nayarit (Santa Teresa) to western 

 Zacatecas (Plateado), and northern Jalisco (near Bolanos). Integrading on 

 south and southwest with sinaloae. 

 Odocoileus virginianus texanus (Mearns) f* 



1898. Dorcelaphus texanus Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 12, p. 



23, Jan. 27, 1898. 

 1898. Odocoileus texanus Thompson-Seton, Forest and Stream, vol. 51, No. 15, 



p. 286, Oct. 8, 1898. 

 1901. Odocoileus texensis Miller and Rehn, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 



30, p. 17, Dec. 27, 1901. (Accidental renaming of texanus.) 

 1915. Odocoileus virginianus texanus Lydekker, Catalogue of the ungulate 



mammals in the . . . British Museum, vol. 4, pp. 158, 163, 1915. 

 Type Locality. — Fort Clark [north of Eagle Pass on Big Bend of Rio Grande], 

 Kinney County, Tex. Range. — Rio Grande Valley in northeastern Chihuahua 

 (Ojinaga), northern Coahuila (Monclova), northern Nuevo Leon, northern 

 Tamaulipas, and southern and eastern Texas (San Elizario) ; north through 

 eastern New Mexico, western Oklahoma, southern Colorado and western Kansas 

 to near Republican River in southern Nebraska. Intergrading on north with 

 dacotensis, on east with macrourus and mcilhennyi, and on south with miquihu- 

 anensis. 



