44 ODONTOCCELUS. 



Northern White-tailed Deer. 



Type locality. Bucksport, Maine. 



Geogr. Distr. Canadian zone, northern New York, New England, 

 and southeastern Canada. 



Genl. Char. Size large; lower tooth row 85 mm. in length. Win- 

 ter pelage different from that of Summer. 



Color. Like that of O. americanus. 



b. Odoutocoeliis ainericanits macrouTJis (Rafinesque) . 

 Cervus macrourtis Rafin., Amer. Month. Mag., 1817, p. 436. 

 Cervus leiicunis Dough, Zool. Journ., iv, 1829, p. 330. 

 Odocoileiis! americanus macroitriis Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 



F. C. M. Pub., II, 1901, p. 39. Zool. Ser. 

 •Rafinesque's White-tailed Deer. 



Type locality. Plains of the Kansas River, Upper Mississippi 

 Valley. 



Geogr. Distr. Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas westward to 

 California, Oregon, and Washington. 



c. Odnnfocoelus cnnericaniis o.^ceohi (Bangs). 



Cariacus osceola Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., ix, 1896, p. 26. 

 Odocoileiis! americanus osceola Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 

 F. C. M. Pub., II, 1901, p. 40. Zool. Ser. 

 Osceola's White-tailed Deer. 



Type locality. Citronelle, Citrus County, Florida. 

 Geogr. Distr. Florida. 



d. Odonfocoelus aniericaiuis ImiisiaiKv (Allen). 



Odocoeleus! virginianus louisiance G. M. Allen, Amer. Nat., xxxv, 

 190T, p. 449. 

 Louisiana White-tailed Deer. 



Type locality. Mer Rouge, Morehouse County, Louisiana. 



Geogr. Distr. Louisiana. Range undetermined. 



Genl. Char. "Size large; skull long, slender; lower tooth row 

 long; antlers heavy, high; color in w^inter pale." 



Color. Top and sides of head grizzled brownish black and white; 

 usual black patch about nostrils and lower jaw; chin, upper part of 

 throat, and orbital ring white ; upper parts grayish buff and black ; 

 sides of belly, throat, and chest ochraceous buff; inner sides of limbs, 

 axillae, and thighs white; tail above like the back, beneath white; 

 metatarsal gland small, surrounded by white hairs, and a brownish 

 black border; ears outside grizzled black and white, inside white. 



Measurements. Nose to end of tail, 1695-2072; tail, 220-285; 

 hind foot, 375-490; ear from crown, 122-134. 5. 



