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BULLETIN 56, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



'IG. 21. — Odocoileus. 



h em ion i's cants. 

 Metatarsal gland. 



dentition. Its weight, as killed, before evisceration, was 103 pounds 

 (46.72 kilos.). Head and neck yellowish drab-gray, with a horse- 

 shoe mark of brownish Mack, grizzled posteriorly, 

 occupying the crown; blackish along the anterior 

 ma rain of the ear. around the eve. and on the end 

 of the muzzle, laterally and superiorly, the latter 

 connected with the horse-shoe mark of the crown by 

 a faint, median, dusky line. Muzzle of a coarser 

 pepper-and-salt mixture of grizzled drab. Region 

 from base of ear to orbit dirty yellowish gray. 

 Inner surface of ear very scantily coated with long, 

 crinkled, grayish-white hairs. The legs are ochra- 

 ceous bull' externally, cream-buff internally, with 

 the bushy hair surrounding the metatarsal gland 

 (fig. 21) cream buff. The tail is long and slender, 

 short-haired, bare underneath at base, white with a 

 black terminal brush of bushy hair; there is a faint 

 indication of a colored line along its upper surface 

 dig. 22). 



An adult male in newly-acquired winter pelage 

 (No. T SWiM Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.. X. Y.), killed at 

 (Cat. No. 20570, u.s Fossil Creek, in central Arizona, November 27, 



N.M i 



1885, weighed 128 pounds after being eviscerated 

 and hung up in camp for several days. Upper parts nearly uniform 

 grizzled plumbeous-gray, the individual hairs being pale at base, 

 then ash-gray, subterminally annulated 

 with white, the pointed tips being black ; 

 underparts, from neck to hinder abdomen, 

 fuliginous-black, darkest in the median 

 line, this color extending well up on the 

 flanks and gradually becoming grayish; 

 throat whitish; inner side of limbs whit- 

 ish, this gradually shading into the brown- 

 ish-yellow color of the outside of the 

 limbs; outer surface of the fore legs, down 

 to the ankle, and of the hind legs, down to 

 the tibio-tarsal joint, colored like the back, 

 but with a slight mixture of reddish or 

 yellowish brown. 



A young buck ( No. 285, Mearns's collec- 

 tion), killed at (he same time and place. 

 having singly-forked horns, is indistin- 

 guishable in coloration from the adult 



above described, save that the blackish area inclosed by the ear-, eyes, 

 and horns is less grizzled and mixed with grayish white. The white 



ic;. •!'!. — Odocoileus hemioni s i a 

 \rs. a. Upper surface of tail; 



/.. LOWER SURFACE. 



