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B. Antilocapra amerieana mexicana. 



Antilocapra amerieana mexicana, Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. xiv, p. 34, 1901 ; Lydekker, Game Animals of Europe, etc. 

 p. 338, 1901 ; Elliot, List Mamm. Field Mus. p. 53, 1907 ; Miller, 

 List N. Amer. Mamm. p. 394, 1912. 



Typical locality Sierra en Media, Chihuahua, Mexico. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 



Colour paler than in typical race, and mane rudimentary 

 or wanting. 



89. 12. 7. 26. Skin, mounted, and skull. Mexico, 

 probably Sonora. Presented by the Mexican Museum, 1889. 



C. Antiloeapra amerieana peninsularis. 



Antilocapra amerieana peninsularis, Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. xv, p. 107, 1912; Miller, List N. Amer. Mamm* 

 p. 394, 1912. 



Typical locality Lower California. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 



Colour much as in typical race, but ears distinctly darker, 

 with broad black margins in .the upper third, the whole 

 surface of which has a blackish suffusion, and rufous of tail 

 extending forwards to join that of back, so as completely to 

 divide rump-patch. 



No specimen in collection. 



FAMILY III GIRAFFID.E. 



Large-sized Pecora in which the paired cranial appendages 

 take the form of short, persistent, reclined, skin-covered 

 conical prominences, capped in one genus with bare bone ; 

 such appendages being present either in both sexes or in 

 males alone. Upper canines wanting; lower canines with 

 cleft, bilobate crowns (fig. 38); cheek-teeth more or less 

 brachyodont, with rugose enamel. Basicranial axis nearly 

 straight (instead of fore portion being sharply bent down- 



