106 U. S. p. E. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS — 47TH PARALLEL. 



CEKVUS LEUCUKUS, Douglas. 



White-tailed Deer. 



Cervus lextcunis, Douglass, Zool. Jour. IV, Jan. 1829,330. 



Richardson, F. Bor. Am. I, 1829, 258. 



AuD. & Bach. N. Am. Quad. III. 1853, 77 ; plate cxviii. 



Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, G49. 

 Long-tailed red deer, Lewis & Clark. 



Sp. Ch. — Horns and gland of the hind legs as in C. virginianus : tail, appreciably longer; hoofs, long and narrow ; fur, 

 compact. General color above, in autumn, yellowish gray, clouded and waved, but not lined with dusky. Chin, entirely 

 white, with only a small dusky spot on tlie edge of the lip. Ears gray, with a basal white spot behind. Anal region and under 

 surface of the tail, but not the buttocks, white. Tail, reddish above, without exhibiting any dusky. 



A pair of horns obtained from Whidby's Island. 



CERVUS COLUMBIANUS, Rich. 



Black'tailed Deer. 



Cervus macrolis, var. colmnhianus, Richardson, F. B. Am. I, 1829, 255 ; pi. xx. 



Cervus columbianus, Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 659. 



Cervus lewisii, Peale, Mammalia and Birds U. S. Ex. Ex. 1848, 39. 



Cervus richardsonii, AuD. &Bach. N.Am. Quad. 11,1851, 211.— Ib. Ill, 1853, 27 ; pi. cvi. 



Black-tailed fallow deer, Lewis & Clark. 

 Sp. Ch. — About the size of C. virginianus, or less. Horns doubly dichotomous, the forks nearly equal. Ears more than half 

 the length of the tail. Gland of the hind leg about one-sixth of the distance between the articulating surfaces of the bono. Tail 

 cylindrical, hairy and white beneath ; almost entirely black above. The under portion of the tip not black. Winter coat with 

 distinct yellowish chestnut annulation on a dark ground. Without white patch on the buttocks. There is a distinct dusky 

 horse-shoe mark on the forehead anterior to the eyes. 



Steilacoom, W. T., 1856. (90.) 



APLOCERUS MONTANUS. 



Monntain Goat. 



Ovis montana, Ord, Guthrie's Geography (2d Am. Ed.) II, 1815, 292, 309.— Is. J. A. N. Sc. 1. 1, 1817, 8. 

 .ij)loceru3 monlanws, Richardson, Zoo!, of Herald ; Fossil Mammals, II, 1852, 131 ; pi. xvi-xix. Osteology. 



Baird, Gen. Rep. Mammals, 1857, 671. 



Baird, Rep. U. S. Pat. Off. Agricultural for 1851, (1852,) 120 ; plate. (From Rich.) 



AuD. & Bach. N. Am. Quad. Ill, 1853, 128 ; pi. cxxviii. 

 Rocky Mountain Sheep, Jameson, " Wernerian Transactions, III, 1821, 30G." 

 Moxmtaiii Goal, JVountain Sheep, JVhite Goat, S{c. Vulgo. 



Sp. Ch. — Entirely white. Horns, hoofs, and edge of nostrils black. Ilair long and pendant. A beard-like tuft of hair on 

 the chin. 



Three specimens were obtained in the Cascade mountains north of Mount Rainier, by 

 Lieutenant Nugen, United States army ; another from the Upper Nisqually. (89.) 



