ALLEN: mammalia: cervid^. 13 



XenclapliHs leitcotis Gray, Cat. Rum. Mamm., 1872, 89 (in part). 

 Hitamela leiicotis Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), X, Dec. 1872, 445; 

 ibid., XI, March, 1873, 214-219, text cut of skull; Hand List 

 Edent., Thick-skinned, and Rum. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1873, 160. 

 Furcifey cliikusis Sclater, List Anim. Zool. Gardens, 1883, 178, and later 

 editions. — Nehring, Sitzb. Gesell. Naturf. Freunde Berlin, 1885, 

 188; ibid., 1895, J6. — Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., 1898, 897. 



Form stout and heavy. Antlers small, with a single fork near the base, 

 the front tine less than half as large as the main branch, both nearly ver- 

 tical in direction. 



IVinter Pelage. — General color of body above and limbs grizzled yel- 

 lowish brown ; the hairs individually are ashy for about the basal two 

 thirds, then pass gradually into blackish, with a narrow subapical band of 

 pale yellowish brown, and a minute black tip, resulting in a grizzled yel- 

 lowish gray-brown general effect ; flanks and ventral surfaces similar, 

 except that the median abdominal area is suffused with blackish ; black 

 facial pattern y-shaped, the arms of the Y beginning over each eye and 

 uniting on the median line somewhat in front of the eyes and passing 

 forward as a rather sharply defined band to the end of the nose, where it 

 spreads laterally to the sides of the lower jaw, thus forming a black cross- 

 band a little behind the muzzle ; a broad, light-colored eye-ring ; lachrymal 

 pit and eyelids blackish ; cheeks and sides of neck lighter and grayer than 

 the body ; ears well clothed, grayish externally, varied with pale yellow- 

 ish brown, white internally; tail above and on the sides like the back, 

 lower surface white ; inguinal region white, passing into pale yellowish 

 brown on the inside of the thighs ; inner side of fore legs near the body 

 light yellowish brown ; tarsal glandular tuft close to the tarsal joint, the 

 anterior upper two thirds whitish, the lower part dusky passing posteriorly 

 into rusty brown. 



Measurements. — Two adult males, respectively, total length 1575 mm. 

 and 1727; girth at chest, 965 and 1 143. Adult female, total length, 1549; 

 girth at chest, 1143. The following measurements are from an adult 

 mounted male in the American Museum of Natural History (No. 

 13558), collected by Mr. Peterson at the eastern base of the Cordilleras, 

 at the head of the Rio Chico de Santa Cruz, February 18, 1897: Total 

 length, following the curves of the body, 1750; tail vertebrae, 120; hind 

 foot, 425 ; height at shoulders, 930 ; ear from crown, 200 ; from notch. 



