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covered slope of a hill. She circled about several times and was 

 finally shot. Her condition showed that she was» nursing a fawn, 

 but the latter was not seen. The date indicates earlier, or possibly 

 more irregular, breeding habits than are usual in northern deer. 



Sir Victor Brooke (1878, p. 919) recorded specimens of white- 

 tailed deer as collected in Panama by Mr. Salvin, but mentioned no 

 exact locality. The specimens may have been taken by Enrique Arce, 

 a collector who was employed by Salvin for several years in VeragUfl 

 and Chiriqui. Brooke is quoted and the same material cited by 

 Alston (1879, p. 115). Bangs (1902, p. 21) records the collection of 

 a young white-tailed deer by W. W. Brown, Jr., at 4,000 feet near 

 Boquete, April 10, 1900, concerning which he says : " This specimen 

 is in the spotted pelage, and is too young to identify. The species 

 was rare, but was well known to the native hunters." 



Specimens examined : Boqueron, 9 ' ; Boquete, 1 2 ; Corozal, 1 ; 

 Gatun, 3. 



ODOCOILEUS ROTHSCHILDI (Thomas) 

 Rothschild's White-tailed Deer 



Dama rothschildi Thomas, Novitates Zoologies, Vol. 9, p. 136, April 10, 1902. 

 Type from Coiba Island, off west coast of Panama. 



Rothschild's white-tailed deer is known only from Coiba Island. 

 It was originally described as " Size very small, about the smallest of 

 the genus ; general colour above brown tipped with fawn." Allen 

 (1904, p. 60) having obtained topotypes from J. H. Batty compared 

 them with specimens from the mainland which he regarded as repre- 

 sentative of Odocoileus costaricensis Miller, and later (1910, p. 95) 

 named Odocoileus rothschildi chiriquensis. Writing in 1904 he says : 

 " The three males, though adult, vary greatly in size and in the 

 development of the antlers, and show that Mr. Thomas's two speci- 

 mens on which he based the species were young or undersized 

 adults. As regards the external characters there is little to add to 

 Mr. Thomas's description, except that the upper surface of the tail 

 in most of these examples is dark reddish brown above instead of 

 ' fawn.' The ears in most of the specimens are externally nearly 

 naked." He (1904, p. 63) further states: " O. rothschildi is mt!( li 

 darker colored when adult than O. costaricensis, and the young are 

 less conspicuously spotted with white ; it is also milfch smaller, as 

 stated by Mr. Thomas." 



While darker in color as indicated by Thomas (/. c.) and Allen 

 (1910, p. 95) the much. smaller general size more readily distin- 



* Collection Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 1 Collection Mus. Comp. Zool. 



