III. 



Mule-deer, Mule Blacktail, Rocky Mountain Black- 

 tail, Bounding Blacktail, or Jumping-deer. 



Odocotleus hemionus (Rafinesque). 



(Gr. Odocoileus, see ante; Gr. hemionos, a half-ass or mule. ) 



Cervus hemionus Rafinesque, 1817, Am. Month. Mag., I, 



October, p. 436. 

 Odocoileus hemionus Merriam, 1 897, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 



XII, p. 100. 

 Type Locality. — Mouth of Sioux River, South Dakota. 



French Canadian, le Dam fauve a queue noire; 



le Cerf mulet. 

 Cree, Ap-ts-chich'-i-koosh or Ah-pe-tchi-mu-sis' 



(small Moose). 

 Wood Cree & Saut., Muk-i-ti-wah' -no-wish 



(black tail). 

 Yankton Sioux, Tah-chah. 

 Ogallala Sioux, Tah-hen-cha'-la. 



When seen alive the Mule-deer strikes one as a large Deer 



with immense ears and white face which bears a large black 



patch on the forehead. From behind it shows an angular 



whitish patch taking in the tail, which latter has a black tip. 



To the generic characters it adds the following: 



SIZE Length, about 5§ feet (1,677 iTini-)j tail, 7 inches (177 



' mm.); hind-foot, 19I inches (495 mm.); length of ear, about 



10 inches (254 mm.); metatarsal gland, about 5 inches long 



(127 mm.). 



The females are smaller. 

 WEIGHT A typical buck killed in Colorado, October i, 1 901, weighed 



21 5I pounds. The largest of 5 that I weighed was 243I 

 pounds live weight, but I was told that specimens of 300 



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