CATALOG OF TYPE SPECIMENS OF MAMMALS 17 



Genus CERVUS Linnaeus 



*Cervus canadensis nelsoni Bailey. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 48 : 188, Nov. 15, 1935. 



r *"" . Skin, skull, and skeleton. Adult male. Yellowstone Na- 

 tional Park, Wyo. Born spring 1896. Sent to National Zoologi- 

 cal Park November 1899. Collected by John Pitcher. Died 

 September 21, 1904. Zoo No. 671-1/4. 



Tanned skin in good condition ; skull and skeleton Grade A ; antlers have 

 been removed from the skulL 



*Cervus merriami Nelson. 



Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 16 : 7, Jan. 16, 1902. 

 111639. Skin and skull. Adult male. Head of Black River, Wliite 

 Mountains, Ariz. August 1886. Collected by E. W. Nelson. 



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

 been entered in the catalogs. The skin had data attached, but the skull 

 was without data, and it was not known to belong with the skin until the 

 summer of 1901. In the spring of 1901 the antlers were sawed off the skull. 

 As both antlers 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 the summer 

 of 1901 the antlers, in the velvet, were recognized by Nelson as belonging to 

 the skin that he had collected 15 years before. A search was made for the 

 skull, but only the lower jaw could be found. Nelson described the species 

 without the complete specimen. (Cranial characters were obtained, how- 

 ever, from a skull in the American Museum of Natural History, New York 

 City.) In September 1902 the missing and main part of the skull was found 

 in one of the Mu-seum's storage sheds, where the antlers were originally 

 discovered. 



The skin is a tanned pelt, in fair condition, worn summer pelage. The 

 antlers, in velvet, are nearly perfect; one tip is slightly 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 ascend- 

 ing ramus of the right half of the mandible is missing. 



The skull and antlers are at present hung on the wall of the oflQce of the 

 Division of Mammals, United States National Museum. 



fCervus nannodes Merriam. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 18 : 24, Feb. 2, 1905. 

 135042. Skin and skull. Two-year-old male. Buttonwillow, Kern 

 County, Calif. November 12, 1904. Collected by C. Hart Mer- 

 riam and E. W. Nelson. Original number 16832 (E. W. N.) . 

 Skin tanned and in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



