5 2 & Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XIX, 



These specimens are much larger than specimens of the 

 eastern animal of corresponding age, and in their dark colora- 

 tion resemble Kenai Peninsula specimens, to which they are 

 provisionally referred. 



3. Odocoileus columbianus sitkensis Merriam. SITKA DEER. 



Odocoileus columbianus sitkensis MERRIAM, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 XII, 1898, 100, April 30, 1898. vSitka, Alaska. 



Fourteen specimens, all in fine condition for mounting, col- 

 lected on Kupreanof Island, southeastern Alaska, November 

 314. The series contains adults of both sexes, several young 

 males, and a young-of-the-year female. 



The type, from Sitka, Alaska, was an immature female, 

 killed August 6, and had "patches of gray winter coat." As 

 the present specimens, all killed during the first half of Novem- 

 ber, are in practically full winter coat, the following descrip- 

 tion, based on this material, is appended. 



Adult Male (November). General color, pale yellowish brown 

 with a slight grayish cast, darker along the median line of the back 

 and lighter on the flanks; the hairs individually are basally light ash 

 gray, broadly ringed near the tip with blackish and strongly tipped 

 with deep buff; nose with a broad terminal band of black, laterally 

 not quite reaching the lips; face w r hitish gray as far back laterally as 

 the eyes, which are nearly enclosed in this light area, behind which 

 is a broad V-shaped band of black, beginning anteriorly considerably 

 in front of the plane of the eyes, and extending backward about mid- 

 way between the posterior border of the eyes and the base of the 

 horns, and blending on top of the head with a blackish area varied 

 with rusty brown (deepening in some specimens to chestnut) ; cheeks 

 pale buffy gray; neck all round and chest like back; chin white, fol- 

 lowed by a band of pale yellowish brown; a patch of black on either 

 side of the lower jaw about midway between the tip of the chin and 

 the angle of the mouth, varying in extent and sharpness in different 

 specimens; throat and upper part of neck in front white, followed by 

 a broad band of brown, and this again by an indistinct half-collar of 

 grayish white; pectoral region darker than the back, in some speci- 

 mens quite blackish; axillary region and inside of fore legs white, the 

 white on the legs becoming buffy white distally ; outside of upper part 

 of fore legs like the flanks, the legs becoming paler and yellower distally, 

 passing into ochraceous on the feet ; middle of belly, inguinal region 



