CERVID^ 173 



10. 12. 3. 6. Skull, with antlers, and skin. Merida, 

 Venezuela ; collected by Mr. S. Briceno. 



Presented by S. V. Dalton, Esq., 1910. 



10. 12. 3. 7. Skull and skin, female. Same locality 

 and collector. Same history. 



W. Odoeoileus virginianus gymnotis. 



Cervus gymnotis, Wiegmann, Isis, 1833, p. 965 ; Goeldi, Mem. Mus. 



Goeldi, pt. iii, p. 32, 1902. 

 Cervus goudotii, Gay and Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 3, 



vol. v, p. 94, 1846; Fitzinger, Sitzber. Tt. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 



vol. Ixxix, pt. 1, p. 67, 1879. 

 Cariacus gymnotus, Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 267, 



1862, partim. 

 Cariacus gymnotis, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 921 ; Sclater, 



List Anim. Zool. Gardens, p. 173, 1883 ; Lydekker, Horns and 



Hoofs, p. 341, 1893; Matschie, Mitt, geogr. Ges. Liibeck, 1894, 



p. 130. 

 Gymnotis wiegmanni, Fitzinger, Sitzber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. 



Ixxviii, pt. 1, p. 344, 1879. 

 Mazama americana gymnotis, Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, p. 265, 



1898, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 351, 1901. 

 Odoeoileus gymnotis, Osgood, Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. x, p. 24, 1910, 



p. 138, 1914. 



Typical locality the Savanna area of the lower Orinoco, 

 Venezuela (teste Osgood, on whose authority the synonomy 

 of this and the next race is given). 



Type in Berlin Museum. 



A short-haired lowland-race, with broad, sparsely haired 

 ears, long narrow hoofs, and no rnetatarsal gland; general 

 colour, at all seasons, yellowish brown speckled with grey, 

 the individual hairs being grey at the base, then brown and 

 ochery, with black tips; a dark streak from the crown of 

 the head along the neck ; a greyish white ring round eye ; 

 yellowish white and brown spots on forehead, a darker spot 

 on nose, and a patch on upper lip, followed by a white 

 streak reaching angle of mouth; chin white, with a dark 

 streak extending to lower lip, and thence to angle of mouth ; 

 tail pale reddish brown above. The antlers of the type 

 measure just short of 7 inches. 



According to Goeldi, this race has of late years immigrated 

 into Brazil. 



