230 MAMMALIA. 



Two skeletons. From the Zoological Society's Collection. 



Skull. Hudson's Bay. Presented by the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany. 



Skull. Hudson's Bay. Presented by the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany. 



* Skull. South America. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



The White-tailed Deer inhabit the Oregon, and they were 

 found to be most numerous near the coast of the Pacific Ocean. 

 Their range on that coast is up to the fifteenth degree of latitude, 

 and probably much further north. At the Umpqua River, in 

 lat. 43, they give place to the Black-tailed Deer, C. Lewisii, 

 which occupy the country south of that parallel to the almost 

 entire exclusion of these. T. Peak, U. S. Explor. Exped. 38. 



We believe that the same species of Deer inhabits all the tim- 

 bered or partially timbered country between the coast of the At- 

 lantic and Pacific Oceans. They vary in size, as all the animals 

 of this genus do, in different feeding-grounds, but they are spe- 

 cifically the same. When alarmed, this species always erects its 

 tail, which being white beneath, is a conspicuous object, and 

 when running the tail is kept erect and wagged from side to side. 

 T. Peak, ibid. 38. 



2. ?CARIACUS MEXICANUS. The MEXICAN DEER. 



Fulvous grey; in winter ? Tail fulvous grey (without 



hair), half as long as the head. Muzzle fulvous grey, scarcely 

 spotted. Metatarsal tuft evident, brown. Horns broad. 



Aculliame, Hernand. Hist. Nov. Hisp. 324. 



Cervus mexicanus, Gmelin, S. N. ; Licht. Darst. t. 18, <? ? & 



jun. ; Sundevall, Pecora, 59; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 37. t. 5. 



f. 23, horns? 



Elephalces mexicanus, J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 62. 

 Hab. Mexico. Mus. Berlin. 



3. CARIACUS LEUCURUS. The LONG-TAILED DEER. 



Fur brownish fulvous : does not change in winter or age. Tail 

 yellow above, elongate. Metatarsal tuft small. Nose brown, side 

 of muzzle white, with an oblique black band from the nose to 

 the mouth. 



Roebuck, Dobbs, Hudson's Bay, 41, 1744. 



Fallow or Virginian Deer, Cook's Third Voyage, ii. 292, 1778. 



Long-tailed Jumping Deer, Umfreville, Hudson's Bay, 190, 



1790. 



Deer with small horns and long tail, Gass. Journ. 55, 1808. 

 Long-tailed Red Deer, Lewis fy Clark, Travels, ii. 41. 

 Small Deer of Pacific, Lewis Sf Clark, Travels, ii. 342. 



