1V>4 BULLETIN 56, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



There is a long tuft of dense hair of slightly darker color upon the 

 inner side of the tarsus between the heel and upper articulating sur- 

 face of the hone, and a similar growth upon the outer side in the 

 region corresponding to the extent of the tarsal gland, which begins 

 ■) nun. below the upper articulation, and measures 144 mm. in length, 

 the surrounding hairs measuring 27 mm. in length. The head is 

 grayish, with the usual black horseshoe mark, grizzled within, occu- 

 pying the forehead, and blackish along the anterior margin of the 

 ear. around the eye. and on the end of the muzzle. The tail is naked 

 at base below, white all around on basal portion, with a heavily 

 expanded black brush at the extremity; underside bare nearly to the 

 black tij). 



The summer coat of this deer is short and scanty, and of a reddish- 

 brown color. An adult female (No. 612, Mearns's collection), killed at 

 Bakers Butte, Mogollon Mountains, central Arizona, altitude 8,000 

 feet, July 26, 1887, weighed 105 pounds, after evisceration and removal 

 of the feet. As killed, it probably weighed about 150 pounds. The 

 tipper parts are ash gray, densely overlaid by yellowish brown; chin, 

 throat, and inner side of limbs white: chest without any of the 

 sooty black color of the winter dress; eyelids black. An adult male, 

 killed by Gen. George Crook at Mud Tanks, 20 miles east of Fort 

 Verde, Arizona, October 2, 1884, had the horns hardened, but still 

 entirel) covered by " velvet," and had acquired the bluish winter 

 pelage. 



The young are usually born during the late spring and summer 

 months, and at first have a spotted coat, in which I have seen them as 

 late as the end of October, in the mountains of central Arizona. 

 One of a pair of twin bucks, in spotted coat, taken in the Black Hills, 

 near Jerome. Arizona, about October 1, 1887, is described in my 

 notes of October i> as follows: The eyes are large and exceedingly 

 beautiful, the eyelids having long black lashes. The location of the 

 tarsal and metatarsal glands is marked by well-defined tufts of yel- 

 lowish brown hair. The dorsum is yellowish brown, with chains of 

 small white spots. Pelage of upper parts ash gray, much mixed 

 with yellow brown, the head. ears, shoulders, and flanks being the 

 purest ash gray. The back is decidedly brown, darkest in the median 

 line, in an area defined by longitudinal rows of white spots extend- 

 ing from the occiput to the rum}) on either side of the spine. There 

 are a few white spot^ lower down, upon the fore part of the shoul- 

 ders, several irregular rows upon the sides, and others extending much 

 lower upon the thighs. The outer side of the limbs is decidedly yel- 

 lowish and the inner side soiled white. The base of the ears exter- 

 nally, sides of head, lower jaw. and throat are ashy white. Nasal 

 pad and hoofs glossy black. Edge of ear narrowly rimmed with 



