MAMMALIA. 233 



6. CARIACUS LEWISII. The BLACK-TAILED DEER. 



The tail black above towards the extremity, yellowish white 

 beneath, covered with hair at all seasons, and not carried erect 

 when running. Fulvous (in summer). Hair very soft, not rigid. 

 Forehead and upper part of face before the eyes blackish. (In 

 winter, fur very thick, quilled, waved, brittle.) Inside of the legs 

 and belly white. Chin-band distinct, black. Front hoofs nar- 

 row, elongate. Horns like C. Virginianus, but generally more 

 slender, and commonly without the basal antler. 

 Black-tailed Deer, Anglo-American in Oregon. 

 Black-tailed Fallow Deer, Lewis fy Clark, Travels to the Pacific, 



iii. 26. 125 (London edit. 1807). 

 Cervus Macrotis /3. Colombiana, Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer. 



i. 257. 

 Long-tailed Deer (Cervus macrourus), H. Smith, Griffith A. K. 



iv. 134, v. 7^5, part. ; Fischer, Syn. 615 ; Blyth in Cuvier 



Animal Kingd. 138. f. 56. 

 Cervus Lewisii, T. Peale, U. States Explor. Exped. 39. t. 9, 



ined. fig. at p. 43, fore-foot. 

 Hab. California, between Columbia River and Umpqua River ; 



seldom seen east of the Cascade range of mountains. 



OSTEOLOGY, a, b. Skull, male and female. Columbia River. 



Presented by the Hudson's Bay Company. 



The Short or Black-tailed Deer in the winter is covered with 

 very thick, waved, tubular, brittle quills or hair, of a grey colour, 

 with a rather darker subterminal band. The legs are yellow 

 brown. The tuft on the inside of the hock very large. The tuft 

 on the outside of the tarsus large, covering an oblong, bald, cal- 

 lous spot, about an inch or an inch and a half long, which is hard 

 and horny in the dry specimen. T. Peale. 



Skull rather broad. Forehead concave. Face rounded on the 

 sides. Intermaxillars broad, not reaching to the nasal. Nasal 

 dilated and bent down on the side behind, with a deep central 

 notch. Suborbital pit large, deep, triangular. Suborbital slit 

 large, triangular, open. 



Skull of Male : Larger. Suborbital pit very large, triangular, 

 deep. Intermaxillar not reaching near the nasal. Length entire 

 12f inches ; from front of orbit 6^ ; width at lower side of orbit 

 5| ; upper side of orbit 5f ; of nose just before first grinder 2 T \ ; 

 of skull 3 f . 



Skull of Female : Smaller. Suborbital pit smaller, narrower, 

 oblong, linear, rather deep. Intermaxillar reaching nearly to the 

 nasal. Length entire 1 1 inches ; from orbit 6^ inches ; width at 

 lower side of orbit 4^f ; at upper side 3-}-f ; of nose just in front 

 of first grinder 2 T \ ; of skull 2|. 



