HOVIDJS. CARIACUS. 



207 



Cervua virgiuiunus, Licht., Akad. Wisseiisehaft. Berlin, 1857, pi. figs. 

 1 11 (horns). 



Cervical vertebrae 7 



Dorsal 13 



Lumbar 



Sacral 4 



Caudal 



a. Horns of young, simple. N. America. 



6. Horns of adult, moderate-sized, with two branches on upper edge 



of beam. N. America. 

 r. Horns of adult, large, with three branches on upper edge of beam ; 



d. Horns, larger and thicker, with five branches on upper edge of 



beam ; inner basal branch very long and forked. 



e. Horns, very large, with many branches on upper edge of beam ; 



inner basal branch thick and forked. Mexico. From the Royal 

 Society's Museum. — Cervus mexicanus. 



f. Single horn, like the preceding one, but the anterior basal branch 



very long, produced, and an additional elongate branch from 

 the lower edge of the middle of the beam. — Cervus mexicanus 

 (Mexican Deer, Penn., Syn. 110. tab. 9. fig. 1 ; H. Smith, in 

 Griff. Anim. Kingd. iv. tab. 163. fig. 3). 



g. Single horn, with the upper branches on the beam rather irregu- 



lar, and three produced and elongate forked branches from the 

 lower edge of the upper part of the beam. — Cervus clavatus, 

 H. Smith, in Griff. Anim. Kingd. iv. tab. 163. fig. 4? 



h. Skeleton. Knowsley. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



i. Horns. Hudson's Bay. Presented by the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany. 



j-p. Seven pairs of horns. 



q. Skeletons. 



r. Skeleton : male. From the Zoological Society's Collection. 



*s. Skull : young. S. America. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



t, u. Skulls. 



The Black-tailed Deek. Cariacus lewisii. 



Cervus richardsonii, Licht., Akad. Wissenschaft. Berlin, 1850, p. 280 

 pi. fig. 12 (horns). 



«, b. Skulls : male and female. Columbia River. Presented by the 

 Hudson's Bay Company. 



Cariacus gymnotus. 



Cervus gymnotus, Pucheran, Monog. of Cervus, Archives du Museum, 

 vi. p. 368. pi. 23. ligs. 2-10 (horns), pi. 25 (animal), 1852. 



a, h. Horns of adult. Vera Cruz. From M. Salle's Collection. 



6. Skull. 



(I. Horns of adult. 



. .. . vOaxaca. S. Mexico, "11,000 feet high. 



e-(j. A scries oi bonis. D 



h-j. Horns of the young. J 



