178 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



elsewhere white both above and below. On first assumption 

 of winter coat the colour becomes for a short time almost 

 black. 



The large hairy ears, elongated metatarsal glands, short, 

 black-tipped tail, with its lower surface naked at base, and 

 the shape of the antlers, form the leading characteristics of 

 this species, the range of which includes the greater part of 

 North America westward of the Missouri Eiver, from Fort 

 George to Texas. 



The named races are distinguishable as follows : 



o 



A. Antlers of the fully developed type, normally 



with 5 points on each size ; size large. 



a. Colour * tawny or grey, tail white with black 



tip. 



a'. Colour tawny, tail tapering, antlers larger 0. h. liemionus. 

 b' . Colour grey, tail not tapering, antlers 



smaller 0. h. virgultus. 



b. Colour pale tawny ; tail with dark dorsal line 



connecting black tip with dark area of back 0. li. californicus. 



c. Colour fulvous, tail whitish with black tip.... 0. h. eremicus. 



d. Colour drab-grey, tail dark at base and white 



in middle, with black tip 0. h. canus. 



B. Antlers simpler, with only a single branch from 



main tine; size rather smaller. 0. h. cerrosensis. 



c. Antlers simple spikes ; size smaller 0. h. peninsula. 



A. Odoeoileus hemionus hemionus. 



Cervus macrotis montanus, Caton, Antelope and Deer of America, 



ed. 2, p. 94, 1881. 



Mazama hemionus typica, Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, p. 275, 1898. 

 Odoeoileus hemionus hemionus, Miller, List N. Amer. Mamm. 



p. 388, 1912. 



Typical locality Sioux Valley, South Dakota. 

 General coloration that of species, of a full dark type ; 

 tail without a dark dorsal line. 



1619, a. Skull and antlers. North America. No history. 



1619, b. Skeleton, mounted. Yellowstone Park, Montana. 



Purchased ( Ward, Rochester, U.S.A.). 



58. 6. 18. 4 (1619, c). Skull and antlers. North America. 



Purchased (Zoological Society), 1858, 



* In summer, both in this afjd following races, 



