CERV1D.E 161 



45. 7. 4. 6. Skull, immature female. Same locality. 



Sa7ne history. 

 2. * * *. Skin, mounted. Canada. 



Presented hy the Agricultural Department 

 of Canada, 1902. 

 2. t t t- Head, female, mounted. Canada. 



Saine history. 



C— Odocoileus virginianus macrourus. 



Cervus* macrourus, Bafinesque, Amer. Month.. Mag. vol. i, p. 436, 



1817 ; H. Smith, QriffitWs Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 134, 



1827. 

 Cervus (Mazama) macrourus, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 



vol. V, p. 316, 1827. 

 Dorcelaphus macrurus, Ologer, Handbuch Natm-geschichtc, p. 40, 



1841. 

 Dorcelaphus virginianus macrourus, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 



Hist. vol. vii, p. 257. 

 Mazama americaua macrura, Lydeliker, Deer of All Lands, p. 257, 



1898, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 343, 1901. 



Odocoileus americanus macrourus, Miller and Behn, Proc. Boston 



Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. xxx, p. 14, 1901 ; Elliot, Synop. Mamin. N. 



America {Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. ii), p. 39, 1902; Miller, List 



N. Amer. Mamm. p. 386, 1912. 

 Odocoileus virginianus macrourus, Stone and Cram, American 



Animals, p. 39, 1903. 

 Odontocoelus americanus macrourus, Elliot, Chech-List Mamm. N. 



Amer. etc. (Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. vi) p. 44, 1905. 



Typical locality Plains of Kansas Valley, Upper Mis- 

 sissippi. 



Smaller than typical race, and slightly different in colour, 

 with no black on face and tail; antlers rather small and 

 much bowed ; general colour in summer reddish brown, in 

 winter bright greyish fawn with black speckling ; tail fawn- 

 colour, passing into rusty brown, above ; tarsal gland 

 yellowish brown. 



The range includes Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, etc. 



JSTo specimen in collection. 



* Misprinted Corvus. 



IV. M 



