17-1 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



8. 3. 7. 53. Skull and skin, female Coast district, 

 Demerara, British Guiana. 



Presented ly F. V. McConncll, Esq., 1908. 



8. 3. 7. 54. Skull and skin of a rather larger and older 

 female. Same locality. Same liistory. 



X.— Odocoileus virgrinianus margaritae. 



Odocoileus margaritse, Osgood, Field Mus. Zool. Piih. vol. x, p. 24, 

 1910, pis. ii and iii. 



Typical (and only) locality Margarita Island, Venezuela. 



Type in Field Museum, Chicago. 



An insular representative of 0. v. gyiniiotis distinguished 

 hy its smaller size, and the proportionately small skull and 

 teeth, the former of which is characterised hy the abruptly 

 elevated brain-case. 



No specimen in collection. 



Y.— Odocoileus virginianus spinosus. 



Cervus spinosus, Oay and Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 3, 



vol. V, p. 93, 1846. 

 Cervus savannarum, Cabanis and Sclionihurglc, Bcisen Brit. Guiana, 



vol. iii, p. 785, 1848. 

 Cariacus (?) spinosus. Gray, Cat. Ungtdata Brit. Mus. p. 236, 1852. 

 Eeduncina savannaruixi, Fitzinger, Sitzber. k. AJc. Wiss. Wien, vol. 



Ixviii, pt. 1, p. 358, 1873, vol. Ixxviii, p. 242, 1879. 

 Cariacus savannarum, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 920 ; Matschie, 



Mitt. Geogr. Ges. Liibech, 1894, p. 130. 

 Mazama americana savannarum, Lydehker, Deer of All Lands, 



p. 266, 1898, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 352, 1901. 

 Mazama spinosa, Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, p. 280, 1898. 

 (?) Dorcelaphus americanus savannarum, Pocock, Proc, Zool. Soc. 



1910, p. 962. 

 Odocoileus spinosus, Osgood, Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. x, p. 138, 



1914 ; cited as Cervus spinosus, but included under the heading 



Odocoileus. 



Typical locality Cayenne, French Guiana. 



Type (a single antler) in Paris Museum. 



According to Osgood, the Guianan representative of 0. v. 

 gyrtinotis, but generally stated to have well-haired ears and 

 a metatarsal gland,* the general colour being clear greyish 



* Vide Pocock, op. cit. ; whether his specimen be rightly identified 

 or no, his recognition that it is merely a race of the whitetail agrees 

 with the views of the present writer. 



