232 MAMMALIA, 



4. CARIACUS? NEMORALIS. The CARIACOU DEER. 



Fulvous grey in winter. Tail above blackish (without the hair), 

 half as long as the head. Nose brown. Muzzle white, with a 

 black oblique streak from nose to mouth. Metatarsal tuft mi- 

 nute, obsolete. Ears covered externally with very short greyish 

 hair. 



C. Nemoralis (H. Smith!), Sundevall, Pecora, 59. 



Cerf blanc ou Cerf des Paletuviers, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 36. t. 5. 



f. 22 a. 

 Chevreuils d'Amerique, Daubent. Buffon H. N. vi. t. 37 ; Cuvier, 



Oss. Foss. iv. 36. t. 5. f. 19-22. 



Cervus mexicanus, part., Pennant, Quad., from Buffon. 

 Biche des Savannes, La Borde, Buffon H. N. Supp. iii. 126 ; 



" young in winter," Cuvier, I. c. 

 Biche des Paletuviers, La Borde, Buff. H. N. Supp. iii. 126; 



" adult male," Cuvier, I. c. 

 Hob. Shores of Mexican Gulf; Guiana; Mexico. Cayenne; M. 



Poiteau. Surinam; M. Baillon. 



5. CARIACUS PUNCTULATUS. The CALIFORNIAN ROE. 



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

 yellow tips of the hair ; in winter greyish brown. Chin-mark 

 distinct. Ears elongated, nakedish. Base of the ears, orbits, 

 round the muzzle, underside of tail, and the upper part of the 

 inside of the legs, 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 

 yellowish. Metatarsal tuft none. Tail like back, with a black- 

 ish tip. 



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

 Hab. California. Lieut. Jones of H.M.S. ' Samson.' 



There is a female of this species in the Zoological Gardens ; it 

 is much smaller and darker than C. Virginianus, and it differs in 

 the hair being dark, with a distinct, yellow, subterminal band. 



Cervus gymnotis is described as very like C. nemoralis, only 

 differing in the tail being rather longer and pale above; the 

 outer surface of the ears brown and nakedish. Metatarsal tufts 

 none. 



Cervus Gymnotis, Wiegmann, Isis, 1833; Wagner, Supp.; Sun- 



devall, Pecora, 39. 

 Hab. Columbia. Mus. Berlin. Doubtful if distinct from the 



former or C. nemoralis. 



