MAMMALS OF THE MEXICAN BOUNDARY. 



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Fig. 27.— Odocoilei's hemionus californicus. Skull 



OF YOUNG MALE. (Cat. No. 60906, ILS.N.M.) 



ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS CALIFORNICUS (Caton). 

 CALIFORNIA MULE DEER. 



Cervus macrotis var. californicus Caton, Amer. Nat., X, Aug. 1876, p. 464. 

 Odocoileus hemionus californicus, Thompson, Forest and Stream, LI, Oct. 



8, 1898, p. 286.— Miller and Rehn, Proc. Bost. Soe. Nat. Hist, XXX, 



Xo. 1, 1901, i>. 16 (Syst. Results Study X. Am. Mam. to close of 1900). 

 [Odocoileus hemionus] californicus, Elliot, Field Col. Mus., Zool. Ser., II, 



1901, p. -t:i 1 Synop. .Main. X. Am. ). 

 [Odontocwlus hemionus] californicus Elliot, Field Col. Mus.. Zool. Ser.. IV. 



Pt. 1. 1904, ]>. 77 1 Mam. Mid. Am.). 



Type-locality. — Near Gaviota Pass, 40 miles from Santa Barbara, 

 California. 



Geographical range. — Sonoran and Transition zones of the Pacific 

 Coast Tract. California and 

 Lower California. 



Description. — A large deer. 

 which, at first sight, appeals 

 to be very distinct from other 

 members of the group : but 

 specimens in the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum show inter- 

 mediate characters suggesting 

 intergradation with the forms living to the eastward. A male ( Xo. 



60906, U.S.N.M.) killed May 28, 

 1894, near the summit of the Coast 

 Range Mountains, at Monument 231, by 

 Jeremiah E. Crabb, blacksmith, was in 

 nearly complete summer pelage, only 

 retaining the grayish winter hair on 

 the hinder part of the rump, bordering 

 on the white of the buttocks, and scat- 

 ui tered tufts of hair on the neck, back, 

 and sides. General colorof upperparts 

 vinaceous cinnamon, becoming more 

 yellowish on the limbs, and darker on 

 the back from the presence of black tips 

 to the hairs. The head is fawn color on 

 sides, gray on base of ears and on muz- 

 zle anterior to the eyes. The edges of 

 the lips, end of chin, and middle of 

 throat are white. The end of the muz- 

 zle, around the naked muzzle and nos- 

 trils, is black": and there are three black 

 spots on the iinderjaw. one 011 each 

 side in front of the angle of the 

 mouth, and one in the median line 

 1111. The ears are coated within with long. 



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Fig. 28.— < coiLEua hemionus cali 



1 "KM' 1 s. a, Tail, i pper si 1:1 ici 



/'. TAI I.. I \ DER SURFACE. 



near the end of the cl 



