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MAMMALIA. 



4. CARIACUS. 



Horns cylindrical, arched, with a central internal snag, the tip 

 bent forward, and with the lower branches on the hinder edge. 

 Fur soft, of thin hair. Tail moderate, furnished with long hair 

 on the under side, anal disk white. Ears rather elongated, large, 

 rounded. They generally have a tuft of white hair on the outer 

 side of the hind legs, rather below the middle of the metacarpus, 

 hut it is sometimes not to be seen. The skull has a very small, 

 shallow, suborbital pit, and the nasal bones are broad and sub- 

 triangular behind. The tail is elongate, slender, pale, with the 

 lower part dark, and reaching nearly to the hocks in summer ; 

 much shorter and broader, and all dark olive, in the winter. 

 Confined to Northern America. 



Mazama, sp., H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. 182; Lesson, Mamm. 



i.270. 



Mazama, Sundevall, Pecora, 50. 

 Cariacus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. 

 Cariacus, sp., Gray, Med. Eepos. 1821; Cat. Mamm. B. M. xxvii. ; 



Lesson, N. Tab. R. A. 173, 1842. 

 Chevreuils du nouveau continent (part.), Elainv. Desm. Mam. ii. 



448, 1822. 



Mazamadae, J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 62, 1828. 

 Elephalcedse, J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 62, 1828. 



* Hoofs narrow, elongate, Tail hairy beneath. 



1. CARIACUS VIRGINIANUS. The AMERICAN DEER. 



Bright fulvous in summer, greyer in winter. Tail fulvous, 

 above the tip black, beneath white, carried erect when running. 

 Metatarsal tuft large, white, round. Nose brown. Side of mouth 

 white, with an oblique black band from the nostrils. Hoofs nar- 

 row, elongate. 



Dama virginiana, Raii Syn. 86. 



Fallow Deer, Lawson, Carol. 23 ; Catesby, Carol. App. 28. 



Cervus Dama americanus, Erxl. Syst. 312. 



Cervus Strongyloceros, part., Schreb. Saugth. 1074, not figure. 



C. Mangivorus, Schrank, Ann. Wetter, i. 327, 1819. 



Cervus Virginianus, Gmelin, S. N. i. 179 ; Desm. Mamm. 442; F. 



Cuvier, Man. Lithog. t. ; Bennett, Gard. Z. S. 205 ; Fischer, 



Syn. 449; Peale, U.S. Explor. Exped. 39. 

 C. (Mazama) Virginiana, Sundevall, Pecora, 58. 

 Cariacus virginianus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 175 ; Cat. Osteol. 



B. M. 63, 64. 



