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Color. Head and shoulders grizzled grayish brown; back griz- 

 zled whitish buffy; sides pale fulvous; rump patch and tail soiled 

 whitish; anterior portion of legs bright golden fulvous, posterior por- 

 tion buffy fulvous; mane grizzled grayish brown; thigh stripe faint; 

 ears buffv ochraceous to ochraceous fulvous; the inside, borders, and 

 outer base buffy white. 



Measurements. "Type (two-year-old male). Total length, 2030; 

 tail vertebrae, 140; hind foot, 620. Skull: basilar length, 358; zygo- 

 matic breadth, 155; occipito-sphenoid length, 79; palatal length, 230; 

 palatal floor of premaxillaries, 82." 



Genus 41. Odoiit octi'liis. Dt'iT. 



Odocoileus (sic) Rafin., Atlantic Journ., i, 1832, No. 3, p. 109, 



fig. Type Odocoileus! speleiis Rafin. = Cerviis dama anieri- 



camis? Erxl. 

 Mazama H. Smith, Griff. Anim. Kingd., v. 1827, p. 314. (nee 



Rafin.) 

 Dorcelaphus G\og., Hand- u. Hilfsb. Naturg., 1841, pp. xxxiir. 140. 

 Cariacns Less., Xouv. Tab. Regn. Anim., 1842, p. 173. 

 Oplacerus Haldeman, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., i, 1842, p. 188. 

 Rednncina Wagn., Schreb. Saugth., Suppl., iv, 1844, p. 373, Taf. 



CCXLVII H. 

 Macrotis Wagn., Schreb. Saugth., Suppl., v, 1855, p. 368-372. 

 Eucervus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Ser., xviii, 1866, p. 338. 

 Otelaphus Fitzin., Sitzungsb. Math.-Nat. CI. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



Lxviii, Abth. I, 1874, p. 356. 

 Gymuotis Fitzin., Sitzungsb. Math.-Nat. CI. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



Lxxviii, Heft II, Abth. i, 1879, p. 343. 



92. OdontocfElus americanus (Erxleben). 



Cerviis dama americanus Erxl., Syst. Regn. Anim., 1777, p. 312. 



Cervns virginianns Bodd., Elench. Anim., i, 1785, p. 136. 



Odocoileus! americanus Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 

 II, 1901, p. 39, pi. XV. Zool. Ser. 

 ViRGixiAx White-tailed Deer. 



Type locality. Virginia. 



Geogr. Distr. Eastern North America from New York to Florida; 

 west to the Missouri River, excepting possibly Louisiana. 



(I. ()((()n1(tc(eliis ((incTicdiui.s horrali.s Miller. 



Odocoileus! americamis borealis Miller, Bull. X. Y. State Museum, 

 1900, p. 83. 



