76 ODONTOCGELUS. 
inguinal regions white; sides of belly and legs pale fulvous; tail above 
fulvous, beneath white. : 
Measurements. Type. ‘Total length, 1250; tail vertebre, 170; 
hind foot, 360”’ (Merr., l. c.).. Animal probably not fully grown. 
59. cerrosensis (Odocoileus!), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., x11, 
1898, p. Ior.. 
Cerros ISLAND DEER. 
Type locality. Cerros or Cedros Island, off coast of Lower Cali- 
fornia, Mexico. 
Geogr. Distr. Type locality only. 
Genl. Char. Similar to O. h. californicus, but smaller. 
Color. Above dark grizzled gray; blackish dorsal band from 
occiput to and over upper surface of tail; dusky spot on top of nose 
and one each side of nostrils; forehead dark; ears grizzled gray exte- 
riorly, interiorly white; throat and neck dusky gray; middle of breast 
and fore legs blackish; sides of breast and belly like upper parts; 
abdomen, and inguinal region whitish; thighs, inner side of hind legs, 
and back of fore legs buffy; tail, dark band above, basal two-thirds 
whitish, remainder blackish. 
Antlers. Small, bowed outward, tips incurved. A single branch 
projects backward and upward from upper third of main tine. 
Measurements. Type. Total length, 1560; tail vertebra, 180; 
hind foot, 380; ear from crown, 180 (ex Merr., 1. c.). 
60. hemionus (Cervus), Rafin., Amer. Month. Mag., 1, 1817, p. 436. 
macrotis Say, Long’s Exped. Rocky Mts., 11, 1823, p. 88. 
auritus Ward, Desc. Etats Unis, v, 1820, Pp. 540. 
hemionus (Odocoileus), Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1go1, p. 42. 
MuLeE DEER. 
Type locality. ‘‘Sioux River,’ probably on eastern border of 
South Dakota. 
Geogr. Distr. Lower California north through Nevada to lati- 
tude of San Francisco, and west of the Missouri River from Fort 
George, south to Texas; including North and South Dakotas, 
Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, 
Nevada, California, Oregon, and Washington. 
Genl. Char. Size large, body heavy; ears very large, thickly 
haired; tail moderate, round, white, tipped with a black tuft, naked 
beneath basally. Metatarsal gland occupying upper half of outer 
side of canon bone; tarsal gland present. 
Antlers with short sub-basal snag, the beam from this projecting 
outward and then upward, forking dichotomously, both prongs 
nearly equal, and then again dividing. 
