MULE-DEER 



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Head of Mule-Deer. From a specimen in the possession of Mr. E. S. Cameron. 



MULE-DEER (Mazama hemionus). 



Antlers with a much shorter sub-basal snag than in the white-tailed 

 deer, beyond which the beam is directed outwards for a short distance, 

 and then curves upwards to form a regular fork, both prongs of which 

 are usually equal, and generally subdivide so as to form five points on 

 each side. Ears very large and heavy ; tail short and small, with a 

 black tip. Gland-tufts on hock and cannon-bone coloured like the 

 leg ; the latter of these elongated and situated in the upper half of 

 the cannon-bone. General colour of upper-parts reddish tawny in 

 summer, brownish or rufous speckled gray in winter, with a brown 



