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species of Ameiva and other reptilia, known to be exclusively South American ; and it is more 
than probable that the present is another of his errors. 
The elk is the most widely distributed of any American deer, reaching from the Atlantic to 
the Pacific, and ranging through many degrees of latitude—according to Richardson, as far 
north as the 57th parallel. At the present day the only well ascertained eastern localities are 
the Allegheny regions of Pennsylvania and Virginia; the fact of its occurrence in New York 
being very uncertain. It is not met with until we reach Minnesota, (or perhaps northern 
Wisconsin) ; to the westward of this it becomes abundant, and appears most numerous on the 
upper Missouri and Yellowstone. 
A very complete account of the habits of this species will be found in the article of Audubon 
and Bachman. 
List of specimens. 
R | Measurements. 
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g S : Locality. When col- Whence and how | re] Nature of a & 5 Collected by— 
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Pennsylvania......0-.2.jecessee Walsfala'sie Prof. S.8. Haldeman.... ...++- Antlers .... 
487 | 1628} @ | Clarke county, Va ..... Oct., 1854....| Col. Jos. Tuley .... 2... eeeeee Skin in ale.|. 
488 | 1629] QO |...... GGast ve tiesdeteainanc Jan., 1855....|.0<00« COP OA OR eT CoE Se oe eIee One RasdOt.cce.|'s 
2013 2847 | ¢ | White Earth river, Neb | Sep. 12, 1856 | Lt. G. K. Warren...... «.«++.| Skin .... 
2020 2854 | OO | Little Missouri .. -+-| Sep. 15, 1856 |...... dO. secccesseccess covces se eAOvese 
2018 | 2852 Q | Fort Berthold....... ...| Sep. 16, 1856 |...... 0) fae iajs oh aienn'e alewad fs cd Oeics 
2019 2853 | © | White Earth river...... | Sep. 8, 1856 |.....-d0...06 pnociveepenmen eds fGted. 
2015 | 2849 |: q | Yellowstone ........... | August..s.<s0|asssne dh <sacas icc doen Eee Mido.t. 
1881 | 2579 & | Republican Fork....... Oct. 4, 1856 | Lt. F. T. Bryan........ 369 |...do.... 
1880 | 2578 | © | Medicine Bow river..... Aug. 22, 1856 |...008 dO. ceeeecee 296 |...do... 8.50 
1882 | 2580 | od} }...... Otainnowiescalsanans Aug. 23, 1856 |.....- Oeics sticessiscne 327 |...do 6.00 
3253 San Francisco, Cal.....|.sscseeseeeees Lt. W. P. Trowbridge... ......) AMIE ..00) ceeees|eeeeee|eeeeee eerece 
1 [ give these measurements as being on the labels, but there is evidently an error of some kind in the excessive length. 
CERVUS VIRGINIANUS, Boddaert. 
: Virginia Deer. 
Cervus virginanus, Bopparrt, Elenchus Animalium, I, 1784, 136. 
ZimMMERMANN, Pennant’s Arktische Zoologie, 1787, 31. 
Geen, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 179. 
Kerr’s Linnezus, 1792, 299. 
Scureser, Saugt. V, 1836.1(!); tab. cexlvii, not of text. 
Suaw, Gen. Zool. II, 1801, 284. 
DesmAreEst, Mammalogie, I, 1822, 442. 
? Say, in Narr. Long's-Exped. I. 1823, 103. (var.) 
Hartan, F. Am. 1825, 238. 
Gopman, Am. N. H. II, 306. 
Doveury’s Cab. N. H. I. 1830, 3; pl. i. B, Q, 0. 
Dexay, N. Y. Zool. I, 1842, 113; pl. xxviii. f. 1. 
Waenrr, Suppl. Schreb. IV, 1844, 373. 
Aup. & Bacn, N. Am. Quad. IT, 1851, 220; pl. Ixxxi, exxxvl. 
Pucneran, Mon. du Cerf, Ann. du Mus. VI, 1852, 305. 
Cervus (Mazama) virginianus, Ham. Surin, Griffith’s Cuv. IV, 1278, 127, V, 315. 
SunpEvatt, K. Sy. Ak. Vet. Handl. for 1844.—In. Archiv Skand. Beit. II, 1850, 134. 
tSee note p. 644 
