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Very few of those vSinall doer were killed in the Canal Zone by the 

 white ctnployees enqaued in the construction of the Panama Canal 

 \Yho hunted regularly in well-organized parties using" hounds to drive 

 g-anie from cover ; the white-tailed deer, on the contrary, were easily 

 obtained often in the innnediate vicinity of noisy construction camps. 



The early account of deer in eastern Panama by Lionel Wafer 

 (17J9. p. 3^9) seems to apply to this species. Referring to game 

 hunted by the Indians of the region, he says: 



" They have considerable Store of Deer also, resembling most our 

 Rtii Den.' but these they never hunt nor kill ; nor will they ever eat 

 of their Flesh, though 'tis very good ; but we were not shy of it. 

 Whether it be out of Superstition, or for any other reason that they 

 forbear them, I know not: Hut when they saw some of our Men 

 killing and eating of them, they not only refused to cat with them, 

 but seemed displeased with them for it. Yet they preserve the Horns 

 of these Deer, setting them up in their Houses ; but they are such 

 only as they shed, for I never saw among them so much as the Skin 

 or Head of any of them that might shew they had beei\ killed by the 

 hniians: and thev are tint niiuble fen- (he Warree, if not a Match for 

 him." 



Under (he n.uue Majranhi sartorii, Bangs (^looj. p. jO published 

 measurements of three aduhs collected by W. W. Brown, jr.. at 

 4.000 to .}.8ix"> feet near Hoiiuete on the southern slope of the X'olcan- 

 dc Chiriqui. In his revision of the gemis, Allen (ioi5<i. p. 543) 

 records specimens collected by W. Iv Kichavdson at Chepigana. Real 

 de Santa Maria. Tapalisa, Hoca de Cupe and Cituro. These records 

 arc republished bv Anthony (^loiO. p. 305^ with the addition of 

 Maxon Ranch i^Kio Fritiidad). 



Specimens examined : Roca de Cupe. i ' ; Bocas del Toro. i ; 

 Boquete, 3*; Caua, 1: ».1\epigana. i': Cituro. i': Gatun (type 

 locality), 2;MaxcMi Ranch (^Rio rrinitkun, 1 ': Real de Santa Maria, 

 4 ' : Tapalisa, 3.* 



Order PERISSODACTYLA. Perissodactyls or 



Odd-toed l^tis;iilates 



Family TAPIRIDAE. Tapire 



The tapirs, the largest indigenous lauil mammals of Fan.una. are 



the only existing American odd-toed ungulates. The single genus 



TapircUa is known from the region ; the genus Taf^irns has not been 



reported, but may possibly occur. 



* Collection Anier. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



* Collection Mus. Conip. Zool. 



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