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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Fli;. 'Jl. — OOOCOILEUS 



h e m i o n u s canl's. 

 Metatarsal gland. 

 (Cat. No. 20570, U.S. 



, N.M.) 



dentition. Its weight, as killed, before evisceration, Avas 103 pounds 

 (46.72 kilos.). Head and neck yellowish drab-gray, with a horse- 

 shoe mark of brownish l)lack, grizzled posteriorly, 

 occupying the crown ; blackish along the anterior 

 margin of the ear, around the eye, and on the end 

 of the nuizzle, laterally and superiorly, the latter 

 connected with the horse-shoe mark of the crown by 

 a faint, median, dusky line. Muzzle of a coarser 

 pepper-and-salt mixture of grizzled drab. Region 

 from base of ear to orbit dirty yellowish gray. 

 Inner surface of ear very scantily coated with long, 

 crinkled, grayish-white hairs. The legs are ochra- 

 ceous buff' externally, cream-butf internally, with 

 the bushy hair surrounding the metatarsal gland 

 (fig. 21) cream buff'. The tail is long and slender, 

 short-haired, bare underneath at base, white with a 

 black terminal brush of bushy hair; there is a faint 

 indication of a colored line along its upper surface 

 (fig. 22). 



An adult male in newly-acquired winter pelage 

 (No. y2,^VcV, Am. Mus. Xat. Hist., K Y.), killed at 

 P^ossil Creek, in central Arizona, November 27, 

 1S85, Aveighed 128 pounds after being eviscerated 

 and hung u}) in canij) for several days. Upper parts nearly uniform 

 grizzled plumbeous-gray, the individual hairs being pale at base, 

 then ash-gray, subterminally annulated 

 with wdiite, the pointed tips being l)lack ; 

 underparts, from neck to hinder abdomen, 

 fuliginous-black, darkest in the median 

 line, this color extending well up on the 

 flanks and gradually becoming grayish; 

 throat whitish; inner side of liml)s whit- 

 ish, this gradually shading into the brown- 

 ish-yellow color of the outside of the 

 limbs; outer surface of the fore legs, down 

 to the ankle, and of the hind legs, down to 

 the tibio-tarsal joint, colored like the back, 

 but with a slight mixture of reddish or 

 yellowish brown. 



A young buck (No. 285, Mearns's collec- 

 tion), killed at the same time and place, fig. 22.— odocoileus hemionus ca- 



1 • • ij>ii,i • •!•.• Nus. o, Upper SURFACE OF tail; 



having smgly-torked horns, is mdistm- ,, ,„,^.,.^ surface. 

 guishal)le in coloration from the adult 



above described, save that the l)lackish area inclosed 1)y the ears, eyes, 

 and horns is less grizzled and mixed with grayish white. The white 



