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linn and much larger cars point to intergradation with Odocoileus 



!i, in inn us < 1 ' miens. 



The characters bf the skull arc shown in fig. 27 and of the teeth 

 in fig. 30. 



Measurements. — The only specimen measured fresh (No. 60906 

 (J.S.N.M., described above), presented the following dimensions: 

 Total length in a straight line. L,325 nun.; lail vertebra?, 200*; tail 

 to end of switch, 300; ear from crown. 223; car from notch. 192; 

 width of car. 123; distance between eyes, L08; diameter of eye. 22; 

 distance from tip of nose to angle of mouth, 78; nose to eye, 111: to 

 center of pupil, 160 ; to base of ear, 233 ; to tip of car. L65; distance 

 from shoulder to hip along side. 630; height at shoulder. 630; 

 height at hip. 965; fore limb from olecranon. 557; length of mantis, 

 312; hind limb from knee joint, 665; length of pes. 1.")."). 



Genus CERVUS Linneeus (1758). 

 Cervus I.i.nx.ei s. Syst. Nat, 10th ed., I. 1758, p. ('»»;. 

 Type. — Cervus elap'hus Linnaeus. 



Characters. — Size, large; skull as in the axine group; without 

 ridges on frontals; supporting large antlers (only in the male 1 * on 

 osseous pedicels; antlers with the beam rounded, splitting up near 

 the summit into a larger or smaller number of snags, often arranged 

 in a cup-like manner, and with a brow tine always present. 



CERVUS MERRIAMI Nelson. 

 MERRIAM ELK. 



Cervus merriami Nelson, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.. N. Y. XVI, Jan.. 1!>o2. 

 l)j). 1 to 12. figs. 1 to T (original description). — Miller and Rehn, Proc. 

 I'.ost. Soc. Nat. Hist., NNNI, No. :'.. Aim. 27, 1903, p. UP. i Syst. 

 Results Study X. Am. Mam. during the years 1901 and 1902). 



Type-locality. — Head of Black River, White Mountains, Apache 

 County. Arizona. Altitude, about 9.000 feet. 



Geographical range. — Upper Transition and Boreal zones in sum- 

 mer, descending to the Lower Transition and Upper Austral zones in 

 winter, in the mountains of western New Mexico and eastern Ari- 

 zona, probably crossing to the high mountains of northeastern 

 Sonora, Mexico. 



Description. — The following essential data are taken from Mi'. 

 Nelson's original description, tabulated comparative measurements 

 of the skull, teeth, and horns, as well as other portions of the descrip- 

 tion and comparisons, being omitted: 



"Type, No. L11639, . ad.. U. S. National Museum, collected Au- 

 gust. L886, at head of Black River, White Mountain-. Arizona, by 

 E. W. Nelson. 



