932 MAMMALIA, 
4. CARIACUS? NEMORALIS. The CartAacou DEER. 
Fulvous grey in winter. Tail above blackish (without the hair), 
half as long as the head. Nose brown. Muzzle white, with a 
black oblique streak from nose to mouth. Metatarsal tuft mi- 
aad obsolete. Ears covered externally with very short greyish 
air. . 
C. Nemoralis (H. Smith?), Sundevall, Pecora, 59. 
Cerf blanc ou Cerf des Paletuviers, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 36. 't. 5. 
f. 22 a. 
Chevreuils d’Amérique, Daubent. Buffon H. N. vi. t. 37 ; Cuvier, 
Oss. Foss. iv. 36. t. 5. f. 19-22. 
Cervus mexicanus, part., Pennant, Quad., from Buffon. 
Biche des Savannes, La Borde, Buffon H. N. Supp. w. 126; 
“ young in winter,” Cuvier, 1. c. 
Biche des Paletuviers, La Borde, Buff. H. N. Supp. ii. 126; 
“adult male,”’ Cuvier, I. c. 
Hab. Shores of Mexican Gulf; Guiana; Mexico. Cayenne; M. 
Poiteau. Surinam; M. Baillon. 
5. CARIACUS PUNCTULATUS. The CALIFORNIAN ROE. 
Dark reddish brown (in summer), minutely punctulated by the 
yellow tips of the hair; in winter greyish brown. Chin-mark 
distinct. Ears elongated, nakedish. Base of the ears, orbits, 
round the muzzle, underside of tail, and the upper part of the 
inside of the legs, white. Forehead, line down the face, and 
narrow streak on upper part of the nape, black. Legs brown. A 
very narrow, indistinct streak on the middle line of the rump 
yellowish. Metatarsal tuft none. Tail like back, with a black- 
ish tip. 
Cariacus punctulatus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, t. 
Hab. California. Lieut. Jones of H.M.S. ‘ Samson.’ 
There is a female of this species in the Zoological Gardens ; it 
is much smaller and darker than C. Virginianus, and it differs in 
the hair being dark, with a distinct, yellow, subtermimal band. 
Cervus gymnoitis is described as very like C. nemoralis, only 
differmg in the tail bemg rather longer and pale above; the 
outer surface of the ears brown and nakedish. Metatarsal tufts 
none. 
Cervus Gymnotis, Wiegmann, Isis, 1833; Wagner, Supp.; Sun- 
devall, Pecora, 39. 
Hab. Columbia. Mus. Berlin. Doubtful if distmet from the 
former or C. nemoralis. 
