II. 



The Northern Whitetail, Northern Whitetailed Deer, 

 or Northern Virginian Deer. 



Odocoileus virginianus borealis Miller. 



(Gr. Odous, a tooth, and koilos, a hollow or cave, badly Latinized by Rafinesque into 

 Odocoileus, should have been Odontocoelus ; probably given because the type tooth 

 was found in a cave; L. virginianus, of Virginia; L. borealis, of the north.) 



■ Cervus virginianus BoDD., 1 784, Elen. Ani., I, p. 136. 

 Odocoileus virginianus Merriam, 1 898, Proc. Biol. See. 

 Wash., April 30, XII, p. 100. 



Type Locality. — Virginia. 



Odocoileus americanus borealis Miller, 1900, Key to Land 

 Mammals N. E. Am., Bull. N. Y. State Mus., p. 83. 



Odocoileus virginianus borealis G. M. Allen, 1901, Am. 

 Nat., June, 1901, p. 450. 



Type Locality. — Bucksport, Maine. 



French Canadian, le Dain fauve a queue blanche; 



le Chevreuil; le Cerf de Firginie. 

 Cree & OjiB., Wab-ai-ush' (Whitetail). 

 Yankton Sioux, Tah-chah Tseen-tay-skah. 

 Ogallala Sioux, T ah-heen-cha' -lah (Deer). 



The genus Odocoileus (Rafinesque, 1832) has, in addition 

 to all the family characteristics: Antlers in the male only; no 

 brow or bez-tines, but an upright snag near the base inside; 

 a metatarsal or mid-leg gland on outer side; tail, long; no 

 canine teeth; the distal or lower ends of the metacarpals or 

 outer front toes, remaining; young, spotted. Teeth as in 

 Cervus^ but canines rarely present. 

 GENERAL Thc Virgiuiau Deer is easily distinguished from the Mule- 



CHARAC- J c^ 



TERs deer and Coast Deer group by the form of its antlers (Fig. 16), 

 which have one main beam, bending forward and bearing the 

 tines behind, also by the metatarsal or mid-leg gland on the outer 

 side of the hind shank (Fig. 1 5), which is about i inch long in the 



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