I 93-] Allen, Mammals from New Mexico and Durango. 59 1 



14-16. (6) San Gabriel, a small adobe village, seventy miles 

 northwest of Inde, in the plains, altitude 7000 feet; Feb. 

 1720. (7) Rancho Santuario, an old "Spanish Grant" 

 ranch, on the plains, altitude 7000 feet; Feb. i7~March n. 

 (8) Matalotes, at the head of the Arroyo Matalotes, at the base 

 of the Sierra Madre, altitude 8000 feet; March 20-24. (9) 

 Cienega de las Vacas, at base of Sierra Madre, altitude 8500 

 feet; April 6. (10) Rio Sestin, altitude 7500 feet one of the 

 most fertile valleys of the region; April Q-May 4. (n) 

 Rancho Bailon, altitude 7800, in the foot-hills of a small range 

 of mountains overlooking the Sestin Valley from the east, 

 May 5-14. (12) Arroyo de Bucy, altitude 7500 feet, a deep 

 rocky canon in the Sierra del Candella; May 22-30. Very 

 few of the specimens collected after June i have as yet come 

 to hand. 



i. Odocoileus x battyi, sp. nov. 



Type, No. 21277, $ ad., Rancho Santuario, northwestern Durango, 

 March 10; J. H. Batty, for whom the species is named. 



Similar in size and coloration to O. couesi, but with strongly marked 

 cranial differences. 



General color (winter coat, type specimen) of upper parts gray 

 brown, darker on top of head and along median line to base of tail, 

 lighter on flanks; below, middle of throat white, passing into pale 

 grayish brown on sides of throat and cheeks and posteriorly over fore 

 neck and chest, which is darker, most of the hairs being tipped with 

 blackish brown; lower breast, axillae, and inside of fore legs white to 

 hoofs, which are encircled with a band of white; middle of ventral 

 surface grayer and slightly suffused with pale buff, passing into clear 

 white on lower part of abdomen, inguinal region, inside of thighs, and 

 inside of hind leg to tarsal gland, which is white with a central disc of 

 deep orange chestnut; a narrow band of whitish encircling the hoofs, 

 broadest and clearer white on the posterior aspect; ears thinly haired, 

 gray brown externally, rather darker than the back, but not edged nor 

 tipped with blackish, and clothed thinly internally with long white 

 hairs; sides of nose with a patch of black,. often connected across the 

 middle and forming a distinct nose band; also a blackish spot, often 

 faintly marked, on each side of the lower lip, near the middle, the two 



1 I am informed by Dr. T. S. Palmer that the generic name Dama Zimmermann 

 (i777)i recently adopted by me for the present group (this Bulletin, XVI, 1902, p. 19), 

 is preoccupied through its previous use by Frisch (1775) for the Cervus dama of Europe. 



