CERVID.E 177 



Otelaphus macrotis, Fitzingcr, Sitzber. k. Jk. Whs. Wien, vol. Ixviii, 

 pt. 1, p. 356, 1873, vol. Ixxviii, pt. 1, p. 303, 1879. 



Dorcelaphus hemionus, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. vol. vii, p. 257, 1895, 



Odocoilexis hemionus, Merriam,Proc. Biol. Soc. Wasliington, vol. xii, 

 p. 100, 1897 ; Elliot, Synop. Mamm. N. Amcr. {Field Mus. Zool. 

 Pub. vol. ii) p. 40, 1901 ; Stone and Cram, Avierican Animals, 

 p. 39, 1903; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1912, p. 783; Scharff, 

 Origin of Life in America, p. 107, 1911 ; Gary, N. Amcr. Fauna, 

 no. 33, p. 56, 1911 ; Miller, List N. Amcr. Mamm. p. 388, 1912. 



Mazania hemionus, LydekJcer, Deer of All Lands, p. 269, pi. xxi, 1898. 



Mazama (Dorcelaphus) hemionus, Lydekker, Great and Small Game 

 of Eitrope, etc. p. 354, 1901 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, 

 p. 106, 1910, ed. 7, p. 104, 1914. 



Odontoccelus hemionus, Elliot, Mamm. Mid. Amcr. and, W. Indies 

 (Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. iv), p. 76, 1904, Check-List Mamm. 

 N. Amer. etc. (ibid. vol. vi) p. 48, 1905, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. 

 (ibid, vol. viii) p. 49, 1907. 



Eucervus hemionus, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 966. 



Mule-Deer. 



Typical locality Sioux Valley, South Dakota. 



Type of Eucervus. 



Build heavier and coarser than in typical race of 0. vir- 

 ginianus; size somewhat greater than in latter, the shoulder- 

 height being from about 3 feet to 3 feet 6 inches ; antlers 

 with very short sub-basal snag, above which the beam is 

 directed outwards for a short distance and then curves 

 upw^ards to form a dichotomous fork, of wliich both prongs 

 are normally nearly equal, and again divide, the normal 

 number of ])oints being five on each side ; ears very large 

 and thickly haired ; tail moderately long, terminating in a 

 brush-like tuft of hair, naked on under surface at base ; 

 muzzle relatively short ; face-glands rather large ; meta- 

 tarsal gland and tuft long and straight, occupying whole of 

 one side of upper half of shank, its hair nearly of the same 

 cinnamon tint as that of legs, as is that of tarsal gland ; 

 general colour typically reddish or yellowish tawny in summer, 

 dark brownish or rufous grey, speckled with whitish, darkest 

 on withers in winter; forehead usually with a dark brown 

 patch, extending nearly to eyes, and a brown patch on each 

 side of nose, rest of face and throat white ; front border of 

 ears black ; inner sides of buttocks and legs, abdomen, and 

 most of inner surface of ears white or whitish, rest of under- 

 parts blackish brown ; tail short, black at tip, typically 

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