NEW DEER FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. 373 
reddish; the tips of the hairs are dusky brown. There is a 
whitish grey ring around the eye, conspicuously lighter than the 
grey of the face. The outer surface of the ear is for the most 
part grey, but there is a rather large area of nearly pure white at 
the base of the posterior free margin, and another smaller area 
at the base of the anterior margin. The latter is continued 
inside the ear by a fringe of long white hairs, which grow shorter 
upwards, and are replaced about the tip of the ear by short hairs 
closely set. The posterior inner margin of the ear is clothed 
with short hairs, which are more or less tawny at the base of the 
ear, but white at its tip. ‘These characters are much less clearly 
observable in the summer coat than in the winter coat. In the 
former, the hair of the back of the ear is often entirely rubbed 
off, and the inner side is only scantily clothed. The back is of a 
_ nearly uniform light chestnut or tawny colour. The hairs are 
grey at the base, and grow darker above. The tips are black, 
while between this colour and the grey is a chestnut or tawny 
ring. On the flanks the basal half of the hairs is whitish, and 
the distal half pale chestnut, without a black tip. The hair on 
the buttocks is the same, but is fully 23 inches long. The colour 
of the tail above is tawny, like the back, but the hairs are dark 
brown in the basal half. The hair of the under side of the tail, 
the perineum, the scrotum, the inside of the thighs, and the 
abdomen nearly to the navel, is long and pure white. The tawny 
colour of the flanks extends without interruption over the chest. 
The median line of the breast is dusky brown. The neck is pale 
greyish chestnut, the grey colour being due to the fact that the 
grey of the lower part of the hairs is mingled with the colour of 
the upper parts of the same. ‘The jaw and throat are white, 
except that there are, as already stated, two dusky brown spots 
on the margin of the lower lip. The colour of the upper 
surfaces of the body is continued on the legs. The proximal 
half of the inside of the fore legs is pure white; but distally 
there is little difference in the colour of the inner and outer 
surfaces. The same is true as regards the distal half of the hind 
legs; the inside of the upper hind Jeg, however, is paler than 
the outside, but is not pure white. The hairs of the tarsal gland 
are pure white; of the very small metatarsal gland, scarcely 
lighter than that of the surrounding tawny-grey area, so that this 
gland is only with much difficulty to be found. 
