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On the Upper Missouri, and west, it is replaced by an allied species, and it probably does not 
extend {o the western borders of Texas. 
mexicanus. 
Fig. 13. Cervus virginianus, No. 3062. 
Size, 4.16 inches to the 
York. Right horn from inside. 
inch. 
Essex county, New 
In Mexico and Sonora it is replaced by the Cervus 
It is a well ascertained fact that the more northern specimens of this deer are appreciably 
larger than those found further south, and that the deer of the southern seacoast and its islands 
are smaller than those of the uplands and mountains of the same latitude. 
This fact is well 
established by the comparison of specimens in the Smithsonian collection, from New York and 
from St. Simon’s island. 
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Sex and age. 
Locality. 
St. Simon's island, Ga. - 
Rowleysburg, Va--.-.-- 
List of specimens. 
Measurements. 
Aug. 5, 1856 
Feb’ry, 1857 
Feb’ry, 1856 
Sept. 7, 1855 
When collected. 
Whence and how 
obtained. 
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