MAMMALIA. 193 



U. The Deer of the Temperate or Warm Regions. Muzzle ta- 

 pering, ending in a bald, moist muffle. Fawn (and sometimes 

 the adult) spotted. Skull with a moderate nose-hole. Inter- 

 maxillaries reaching to the nasal. Tail well developed. Cru- 

 men and suborbital pit in skull distinct. The spots of the 

 young generally disappear in the adult, or are only to be 

 seen when the animals are in high condition. The fur is 

 shorter and brighter in summer, and greyer in winter. 



Deer of Temperate and Warm Regions, Gray, Ann. fy Mag. 2V. 



H. 1850; Knowsley Menag. 

 Cervus, Sundevall, Pecora, 54. 



3. The Elaphine Deer. Horns with a distinct anterior basal 

 snag close on the crown. Muffle broad, shallow, separated 

 from the upper lip by a hairy band, with only a narrow in- 

 terruption in front. External metatarsal gland above the 

 middle of the bone. Skull with a large, deep suborbital pit. 



Elaphine Deer, Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1850; Knows. Menag. 

 Catoglochis (part.), Bravo -d, Foss. du Dome. 

 Cervus 1. (C. Veteris orbis), Sundevall, Pecora, 54. 

 Elaphida?, J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 61, 1828. 



1. CERVUS. 



Horns round, erect, with an anterior basal snag, a medial an- 

 terior snag, with the apex divided into one or more branches, 

 according to the age of the animal. Crumen well- developed. 

 Hoofs narrow, triangular, compressed, covered with brittle, opake 

 hair. The rump is generally ornamented with a pale mark. Skull 

 with a large, deep suborbital pit. Horns with one or two branches 

 on the middle of the front of the beam. 



Cervus ( 4. Elaphus), H. Smith, Griffith A.K.v. . 1827 ; in 

 Fischer, Syn. 612; Lesson, Mamm. i. 262; N. Tab. R.A. 169. 

 Cervus (Elaphus), Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1836, 135. 

 Cervus 1. a. (C. nobilis), Sundevall, Pecora, 55. 

 Cerfs, Blainv. Desm. Mamm. ii. 448, 1822. 

 Elaphus, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 61. 



a. Hoofs rather broad, semicircular. Tail very short. Hair in 

 winter soft. America. STRONGYLOCEROS. 



1. CERVUS CANADENSIS. The WAPITI. 



Red brown. Rump with a very large, pale disk extending far 

 above the base of the tail, and with a black streak on each side 



