CERVID^l 169 



P. Odocoileus virginianus truei. 



Cariacus clavatus, True, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. xi, p. 417, 1888 ; 



nee Cervus clavatus, H. Smith, 1827. 



Cariacus truei, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. vol. ii, p. 895, 1898. 

 Odocoileus truei, Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xii, 



p. 103, 1898 ; Miller, List N. Amer. Mamm. p. 390, 1912. 

 Mazama americana truei, LydcJcker, Great and Small Game of 



Europe, etc. p. 350, 1901. 

 Oclontoccelus truii, Elliot, Mamm. Mid. Amer. and W. Indies (Field 



Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. iv), p. 73, 1904, Check-List Mamm. N. Amer. 



etc. (ibid. vol. vi) p. 46, 1905. 



Typical locality Segovia Valley, Eastern Honduras. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 



Size medium: general appearance and colour very 

 similar to typical race, but antlers in the form of simple 

 spikes directed backwards nearly in the plane of the face ; 

 metatarsal gland small ; hoofs yellowish at tips ; general 

 colour, at least in summer,* bright chestnut, greyer on head 

 than on back, with a white spot on each side of muzzle, 

 followed by a dusky brown band extending to margin of lip, 

 and continued by a spot on border of lower lip ; orbital rings 

 whitish ; a dusky brown streak from nose to forehead, which 

 is darker than face ; ears mostly grey, with, a large white 

 spot at base ; upper surface of tail tawny like back ; under 

 surface of lower jaw and throat white, like under-parts. 



58. 6. 18. 5. Skin, referable either to this race or to 

 0. v. ncmoralis. Honduras. 



Purchased (Zoological Society), 1858. 



58. 6. 18. 8. Skin, female, racially identical with the 

 preceding specimen. Honduras. Same history. 



9. 6. 11. 14. Skull and skin, young female, provisionally 

 referred to this race. Polochic Valley, Guatemala ; col- 

 lected by G. C. Shortridge, Esq. 



Presented ly the Zoological Society, 1909. 



* The speckled brownish grey skin regarded by True as showing 

 the winter coat, is stated by Elliot (op. cit. 1905) to be in the summer 

 dress. 



