134 Sport and Life. 



This is what he says of this new species of " Piccadilly deer" it 

 is found nowhere else "The mule or black-tailed deer (Cariacus 

 macrotis var. Columbianus}. The variety has much larger ears than 

 the white-tailed deer, and, owing to its having the tip of the tail 

 black, is often called black-tailed. Distribution : Along the Pacific 

 coast, Oregon, California, Washington, Nebraska, Dakota, 

 Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas." 



Not one of these statements is correct, for he has not only 

 bunched together as one, two distinct animals, but neither inhabit 

 all these distinct regions. No mule deer has ever been seen on 

 the Pacific coast, and no black-tailed deer has ever set foot of its 

 own accord within 1000 miles of Nebraska, Dakota, Colorado, or 

 Kansas. According to this text-book, we have, therefore, only the 

 white-tailed deer and these "Piccadilly" deer in North America 

 (north of Mexico). Taking up the latest of all English text-books, 

 Mr. Lydekker's " The Deer of all Lands," published also by- 

 Rowland Ward, we are told that, not counting wapiti, moose, and 

 caribou, there are fifteen different kinds of deer in North America ! * 

 Fifteen to Ward's two ! 



In striking contrast to the latter's distribution of his " Piccadilly 

 deer," Mr. Lydekker goes to the other extreme. Thus of one 

 species, which he calls Crooke's black-tailed deer, Mr. Lydekker 

 tells us, that it is confined to the "Dog Mountains, Grant County, 

 New Mexico ! " No, not even a whole county does this rare beast 

 own for its playground. And rare it must be, for he acknowledges 

 that he has founded this new race of deer on the strength of a 

 single female specimen ! On trying to localise " Dog Mountains " 

 on my map of New Mexico (one of Rand McNally's), I am unable 

 to find any trace of them in any of the thirteen counties into which 

 the territory is divided. In his introduction Mr. Lydekker remarks 

 that : " An exceedingly difficult and unsatisfactory part of the 

 subject has been that relating to scientific nomenclature." By his 



* Manama americancs typica, macrura, osceola, texana, mexicana, tolteca, 

 savannarum, truci, crookei, hemionus, H, typica, H. californica, H. peninsulce, 

 eremica, M. columbiana. 



