Peruvian W'hitetail 



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The present form is found in Peru and Bolivia, and is one of those 

 which have lost the metatarsal gland and tuft, and is apparently of the 

 same colour throughout the year. On the upper-parts the general colour 

 of the hair is dark greyish brown speckled with whitish ; the upper surtace 



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Fig. 73. — Outer side of left hind foot and upper and lower surface of tail oi {A) Colombian Black-tailed 

 Deer, {B) Mule-Deer, and (C) \^irginian White-tailed Deer. (After Seton-Thompson.) 



of the tail being uniformly brown, and its lower surface, together with the 

 under-parts generally, white. 



It may be added that to enable the sportsman to obtain an adequate 

 idea of the mutual relationships of these various forms of white-tailed deer 

 it would be necessary to have a mounted series ot skins of all of them 

 exhibited in the British or some other Museum. In England, at any rate, 

 there is very little chance that such an instructive series will ever be 

 displayed to the public. 



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