106 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
Head of Mule-Deer. 
The MULE-DEER (Mazama |Dorcelaphus| hemionus). 
(Otherwise Carzacus macrotis, or Odocotleus hemionus.) 
Antlers with a much shorter sub-basal snag than in the white- 
tailed deer, beyond which the beam is directed outwards for a short 
distance, and then curves upwards to form a regular fork, both prongs 
of which are usually equal, and generally subdivide so as to form five 
points on each side. Ears large and heavy; tail short and small, 
naked below basally, with a black tip. Gland-tufts on hock and 
cannon-bone coloured like the leg; the latter of these elongated and 
situated on the upper half of the cannon-bone. General colour of 
upper-parts yellowish tawny in summer, brownish or rufous speckled 
