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median area, which fades to <>rayish on the axilhiry and inguinal 

 regions. Snout livid plumbeous, sometimes flesh color aroiuid the 

 nostrils. Hoofs plumbeous black. 



Another adult male (No. 2005(3, U.S.N.M., mounted), killed at the 

 same time and j^lace, is almost exactly like the type in coloration. 

 An old female (No. ti|||, U.S.X.^Nl.) which was shot by the writer at 



tlr,. 4.— TaYASSU ANUULATLM ISONOKIKNSE. (Cilt. No. 3581.3, U.S.N. M.) (1, iSKlLL, LATERAL VIEW; 



b, DORSAL VIEW. 



Cajon Bonito Creek, Mexico, near the boundar}' between (^hihuahua 

 and Sonora, and about (J miles south of the United States border, 

 August 11, 181)ii, is a little paler and more reddish, as is also a skin 

 obtained in (xuadalupe Canyon, Arizona. 



At the JNlexican town of Santa Cruz, on the river bearing the same 

 name, a j^oung female was purchased from a Mexican boy in October, 

 1893, and sent alive to the National Zoological Park in Washington 

 City, where it died during the following winter and is now in the col- 



