430 Zoological Society. 



(London edit. 1807). — Cervus macrotis /3. Colombiana, Richardson, 

 Fauna Bor. Amer. i. 257. — Long-tailed Deer {Cervus macrourus), 

 H. Smith, G.A.K. iv. 134, v. 795, part ; Fischer, Syn. 615.— Cervus 

 Lewisii, J. Peale, U. S. Explor. Exped. 39. t. 9, ined. fig. at p. 43, 

 fore-foot ; Gray, Knows. Menag. 67. t. 44, in summer, t. 45, in win- 

 ter fur. 



Inhabits N.W. Coast of N. America. 



3. Cariacxjs ptjnctulatus. The Californian Roe. 



Dark reddish brown (in summer), minutely punctulated by the 

 yellow tips of the hair ; chin-mark distinct ; ears elongated, nakedish ; 

 base of the ears, orbits, round the muzzle, under side of tail, and the 

 upper part of the inside of the leg, white ; forehead, line down the 

 face, and narrow streak on upper part of the nape black ; legs brown ; 

 a very narrow, indistinct streak on the middle line of the rump yel- 

 lowish ; tail like back, with a blackish tip. 



Inhabits California. 



There is a female of this species in the Zoological Gardens. It is 

 much smaller than the Black-tailed Deer, and darker than C. Virgini- 

 anus, and it differs in the hair being dark, with a distinct yellow sub- 

 terminal band. 



** The front hoof broad cordate ; tail not hairy beneath. 



4. Cariacus macrotis. The Mule Deer. 



Brownish fulvous ; chin without any or only an indistinct band ; 

 tail pale ferruginous, with a black tuft at the end, and without any 

 hair beneath ; ears very large ; hoofs of the fore-feet broad cordate, 

 nearly as broad as long, flattened and concave beneath ; horns larger 

 and more spreading than in C. Virginianus. 



Mule Deer, Anglo-Americans of the Rocky Mountains. — IMule or 

 Black-tailed Dee?; Le Raye ; Lewis and Clerk, Travels ; Wied, Voy. 

 Amer. Merid. iii. 273, and Vig. A, B. — Cervus macrotis, Say, Long, 

 Exped. Rocky Mount, ii. 88 ; H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 794 ; Fischer, 

 Syn. 444, 615 ; Sundeval, Pecora, 59 ; Richardson, Faun. Bor. Amer. 

 254. t. 20 ; Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped. 41. t. 10 (ined.), fig. at p. 43, 

 fore-feet ; Gray, Knows. Menag. 67. — C. auritus, Desm. Diet. Class. 

 H. N. iii. 379* 



Inhabits N.W. America; Arakansa. 



We have several skulls of this genus in the British Museum, which 

 offer very distinct characters, but unfortunately, not having the skins 

 belonging to them, we cannot identify with certainty the species to 

 which they belong. 



These skulls vary considerably in width and comparative length of 

 the face, and in the extent and depth of the suborbital pit ; in some, 

 which are probably the skulls of the Black-tailed Deer as they come 

 from the north-west coast, the pit is very large and deep ; and thirdly, 

 in the extent of the intermaxillary lines. In some they scarcely reach 

 to the nasal ; in others they reach to it and are united to it by a rather 

 broad suture ; and in others they do not nearly reach to it, but stop 

 abruptly, ending in a notch in the front upper edge of the maxillary. 



There is imported by the North Western American Fur Company 



