ADDENDA TO "DEER OF ALL LANDS" 



The issue of the present volume afFords a convenient opportunity for recording such 

 amendments and additions to the Deer of all Lands as are necessary. 



The hind figured on page 103 as that of the Manchurian wapiti proves to 

 belong to the Duke of Bedford's deer. Consequently the redness and large size 

 attributed to the former animal are not warranted by the tacts. 



A muntjac from Borneo named Cervulus pleihariciis by Kohlbrugge ' in 1895 ^^^ 

 overlooked ; but its claims to specific distinction from the Indian muntjac are very 

 doubtful. 



The name Dorcelaphus, used in a sub-generic sense (p. 248) tor one group of 

 American deer, is antedated by Odocoileiis, Rafinesque, 1832; and the latter is 

 accordingly employed by Dr. Merriam.' It was given to a fossil tooth, now identified 

 with the common American deer ; and such an unsatisfactory type specimen may 

 appear to some a good reason against its adoption. The specific name is O. spehvus. 



Dr. Merriam ^ also recognises two additional sub-species of the black-tailed deer, 

 which he proposes to call Odocoileiis columbianus sitkensis and Odocoileus coliimbianus 

 scaphiotus ; the former being from Alaska and the latter from California . 



The same writer ^ also names a deer allied to the mule-deer from Cerros Island, 

 California, Odocoileus cerrosensis ; a second ° from Chiapas, Mexico, O. thomasi, stated 

 to differ from the common American deer by being red at all seasons ; and a third " 

 from the same district, 0. nelsoni. 



The acquisition by the British Museum of a mounted specimen of the marsh-deer 

 (p. 283) shows that the hair on the withers is reversed, as in the pampas deer, 

 although to a smaller extent. The reversal of the hair in this region becomes there- 

 fore a characteristic of the sub-genus Blastoceros. 



1 Niitui/rk. Tijdschr. NeJcrl. hid. scr. 2, vol. iv. p. 192 (1895). 



- Proc. Soc. H'dstington, vol. xii. p. 99 (1898), published subsequently to Deer of all Lands. 



'■'■ Op. cit. pp. 100 and lOI. ^ Ibid. p. loi. * liiid. p. 102. '' Ibid. p. 103. 



