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nice, although not so dark as in occult ntalis ; tines of antlers 

 less curved than in typical race ; nasals broader and flatter ; 

 upper series of cheek-teeth stouter and more curved. 



D. Cervus canadensis nannodes. 



(?) Cervus inaral californica, Scvcrtzow, Turkestan. Javotnie, 1873, 



p. 103, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii, p. 386, 1876. 

 Cervus nannodes, Mcrriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xviii, 



p. 83, 1905; Elliot, Check-List Mamm. N. Amer. (Zool. Pub. 



Field M^ux. vol. vi) p. 42, 1905 ; Miller, List N. Amer. Mamm. 



p. 385, 1912. 



Typical locality Button willow, Kern County, California. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 



Size smaller and legs relatively shorter than in any of 

 the preceding races; general colour pale and rump-patch 

 small in comparison with that of other races. There are also 

 skull-differences. 



The range appears to he mainly, if not entirely, restricted 

 to the San Joaquin Valley, but formerly included the higher 

 ridges of the White and Mogollon Mountains of Arizona and 

 New Mexico. 



No specimen in collection. 



E. Cervus canadensis xanthopygus. 



Cervus elaphus, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. p. 216, 1811 ; Schrenck, 

 JReis. und Forscli. im Amur-Lande, vol. i, p. 171, 1851 ; Kaddc, 

 Reise Siid-Ost-Siberien, pt. i, p. 284, 1862 ; nee Linn. 



Cervus xanthopygus, Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. ser. 5, 

 vol. viii, p. 376, 1869, Recli. Mamm. p. 181, pi. xxi, 1870-74 ; 

 Fitzinger, Sitzber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixix, pt. 1, p. 590, 

 1874 ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 68 ; Lijdekker, Deer of 

 All Lands, p. 81, pi. iii, 1898 ; Pousargues, Mem. Soc. Zool. 

 France, vol. xi, p. 205, 1898 ; Allen and Andrews, Bull. Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xxxii, p. 488, 1813. 



Cervus luhdorfi, Bolau, Abh. Ver. Hamburg, vol. vii, p. 33, pi. iv, 

 1880 ; Fitzinger, Sitzber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixxxiii, p. 373, 

 1881 ; Pousargues, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vol. xi, p. 209, 1898 

 (as a synonym of xanthopygus). 



Cervus luehdorfi, Sclater, List. Anim. Zool. Gardens, p. 263, 1883. 



Cervus isubra, Noack, Humboldt, vol. viii, p. 6, fig. 5, 1889. 



Cervus bedfordianus, Lydekker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 932, pis. 

 xxxviii and xxxix, Deer of All Lands, p. 101, 1898 (as a synonym 

 of xanthopygus). 



Cervus canadensis luehdorfi, Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, p. 102, 

 1898. 



