136 Fretp Museum oF NaAtTurAL History — Zoétocy, Vou. X. 
and has the under parts more richly colored. For purposes of compar- 
ison, a specimen collected by R. H. Becker at Itacoatiara, near Manaos, 
Brazil, has been regarded as representing true brevicaudatus. 
Odocoileus lasiotis sp. nov. 
Type from Paramo de los Conejos, Sierra de Merida, Venezuela. 
Altitude 9,000 ft. No. 20198 Field Museum of Natural History. 
Adult male. Collected Aug. 19, 1912. Received from S. Bricefio 
Gabaldon and Sons. 
Characters —A medium-sized deer with full long pelage (hairs on 
back and sides 30-50 mm.), densely hairy and relatively short ears, 
broad heavy tail, and dark grayish coloration with rather extensive 
blackish brown markings; no metatarsal gland. 
Color.—General color of upper parts buffish gray, the hairs broccoli 
brown or.drab with a broad subterminal annulation of buffy and a dusky 
tip producing a somewhat coarsely peppery appearance; sides of body 
notably paler than back; a continuous dark brown line from the nose over 
the head, neck, and shoulders to the middle of the back, widening to 
cover practically the entire forehead and interorbital region, broadening 
again over the shoulders and thence gradually merging with lighter toward 
the tail; sides of head and face grayish finely punctulated; sides of nose 
dark brown continuous with median dark frontal area and separated 
from rhinarium and upper lips by a sharply defined line of buffy white; 
a broad blackish eyering; chin creamy white with a conspicuous blackish 
brown submaxillary spot on each side separated from the narrowly 
white throat by a buffy gray continuation from the sides of the face; 
lower neck and brisket brownish drab only slightly punctulated or 
lined with whitish; axillary region buffy white continuous with a well 
defined stripe down the hind side of the foreleg to the ‘‘knee’’ and 
bordered by pale cinnamon; foreleg mixed drab and cinnamon fawn 
becoming brighter nearly clear clay color touched with tawny below the _ 
“knee”; a well-marked dark brown line from midway of the humerus 
down the front of the leg to the pastern where it is interrupted by a 
fulvous area followed by a broad brown spot at the base of the hoofs; 
belly white, continuous with a sharp stripe down the inner side of each 
hind leg to a point opposite the hock; remainder of hind legs colored 
practically like forelegs but brownish stripe less pronounced; ears 
densely hairy on the outside, dark drabbish bistre distally somewhat 
more grayish proximally; lower base of ear and one third of lower side 
white; inside of ear thickly clothed with long creamy white hairs; tail 
