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6. Cartacus Lewisit. The BLACK-TAILED DEER. 
The tail black above towards the extremity, yellowish white 
beneath, covered with hair at all seasons, and not carried erect 
when running. Fulvous (in summer). Hair very soft, not rigid. 
Forehead and upper part of face before the eyes blackish. (In 
winter, fur very thick, quilled, waved, brittle.) Inside of the legs 
and belly white. Chin-band distinct, black. Front hoofs nar- 
row, elongate. Horns like C. Virginianus, but generally more 
slender, and commonly without the basal antler. 
Black-tailed Deer, Anglo-American in Oregon. 
Black-tailed Fallow Deer, Lewis & Clark, Travels to the Pacific, 
in. 26. 125 (London edit. 1807). 
Cervus Macrotis 8. Colombiana, Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer. 
1. 257. 
Long-tailed Deer (Cervus macrourus), H. Smith, Griffith A. K. 
iv. 134, v. 795, part.; Fischer, Syn. 615; Blyth in Cuvier 
Animal Kingd. 138. f. 56. 
Cervus Lewisii, T. Peale, U. States Explor. Exped. 39. t. 9, 
ined. fig. at p. 43, fore-foot. 
Hab. California, between Columbia River and Umpqua River ; 
seldom seen east of the Cascade range of mountains. 
Ostreo.Locy. a, b. Skull, male and female. Columbia River. 
Presented by the Hudson’s Bay Company. 
The Short or Black-tailed Deer in the winter is covered with 
very thick, waved, tubular, brittle quills or hair, of a grey colour, 
with a rather darker subterminal band. ‘The legs are yellow 
brown. The tuft on the inside of the hock very large. The tuft 
on the outside of the tarsus large, covering an oblong, bald, cal- 
lous spot, about an inch or an inch and a half long, which is hard 
and horny in the dry specimen.—T. Peale. 
Skull rather broad. Forehead concave. Face rounded on the 
sides. Intermaxillars broad, not reaching to the nasal. Nasal 
dilated and bent down on the side behind, with a deep central 
notch. Suborbital pit large, deep, triangular. Suborbital slit 
large, triangular, open. 
Skull of Male: Larger. Suborbital pit very large, triangular, 
deep. Intermaxillar not reaching near the nasal. Length entire 
123 inches; from front of orbit 63; width at lower side of orbit 
54; upper side of orbit 53; of nose just before first grinder 2,8 ; 
of skull 3%. 
Skull of Female: Smaller. Suborbital pit smaller, narrower, 
oblong, linear, rather deep. Intermaxillar reaching nearly to the 
nasal. Length entire 1] inches; from orbit 6} inches; width at 
lower side of orbit 442; at upper side 342; of nose just in front 
of first grinder 2,5; of skull 2}. 
