APRIL, 1914. Four New MAMMALS FROM VENEZUELA—OSGOOD. 137 
broad and heavily haired, the hairs at the tip extending 75-85 mm. 
beyond the vertebrz and those on the sides 7o-80 mm.; median upper 
side of tail Prout’s brown, the hairs self-colored on the distal half of the 
tail, broadly tipped with pale cinnamon on the proximal half and con- 
tinuous with the color of the back; under side of tail white, the hairs 
longer than the median dark ones of the upper side. 
Skull.—Practically as in O. savannarum (=O. spinosus); smaller 
and having decidedly weaker dentition than O. gymnotts as represented 
by specimens from the Maracaibo region, Venezuela. 
Antlers.—The antlers of the type are in the velvet and were received 
attached to the skin, the pedicels having been hacked through with a 
machete in removing the skin. They are rather small (length on 
outer curve 320 mm.) and only the right antler is normal, the left 
having the beam depauperate and shorter than the back tine. The 
right antler has four points, a strong well-developed subbasal snag 
(7o mm.), a long slender bez or back tine directed upward and back- 
ward (105 mm.), and a short trez (25 mm.) two thirds of the way from 
the base of the bez to the point of the forwardly directed beam. The 
burr is heavy and the subbasal snag together with the beam below the 
bez is highly rugose. 
Measurements.—Type (dressed skin, measured dry): Head and body 
1460; tail vertebrae 130; hind foot 340; ear from crown 125; ear from 
notch 110. Skull of type: Greatest length 244; basilar length 220; 
tip of premaxillz to end of palate 157; zygomatic width 100; mastoid 
width 82; interorbital width 63; median length of nasals 72; greatest 
width of nasals 27.6; width between outer sides of second upper molars 
- 60; length of upper toothrow 71; lower toothrow 72.2. 
Remarks.—So far as known, all the deer of the genus Odocoileus 
previously described from northern South America inhabit the low- 
lands in the arid or semi-arid savannas, regions of light intermittent 
forest or open grasslands. They are short-haired and largely ochraceous 
or “reddish” in color and their hoofs are narrow and pointed. The 
species above described evidently inhabits the paramos and the scat- 
tered tongues of forest surrounding them at considerable elevation 
above the hot regions. Its full long pelage leaves no room for doubt 
that its habitat is relatively cool and moist. Even if they were abun- 
dant, deer would be difficult to obtain in these mountain regions; but it 
is probable this species is rare, since no specimen of it has been ob- 
tained previously, although the Merida region is one from which much 
natural history material has been sent for a number of years. 
Several names have been given to deer of the genus Odocoileus from 
