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Very few of these small deer were killed in the Canal Zone by the 

 white employees engaged in the construction of the Panama Canal 

 who hunted regularly in well-organized parties using hounds to drive 

 game from cover ; the white-tailed deer, on the contrary, were easily 

 obtained often in the immediate vicinity of noisy construction camps. 



The early account of deer in eastern Panama by Lionel Wafer 

 (1729, p. 329) seems to apply to this species. Referring to game 

 hunted by the Indians of the region, he says : 



" They have considerable Store of Deer also, resembling most our 

 Red Deer; but these they never hunt nor kill ; nor will they ever eat 

 of their Flesh, though 'tis very good; but we were not shy of it. 

 Whether it be out of Superstition, or for any other reason that they 

 forbear them, I know not: But when they saw some of our Men 

 killing and eating of them, they not only refused to eat with them, 

 but seemed displeased with them for it. Yet they preserve the Horns 

 of these Deer, setting them up in their Houses ; but they are such 

 only as they shed, for I never saw among them so much as the Skin 

 or Head of any of them that might shew they had been killed by the 

 Indians; and they are too nimble for the Warree, if not a Match for 

 him." 



Under the name Masama sartorii, Bangs (1902, p. 21) published 

 measurements of three adults collected by W. W. Brown, Jr., at 

 4,000 to 4.800 feet near Boquete on the southern slope of the Volcan 

 de Chiriqui. In his revision of the genus, Allen (1915a, p. 543) 

 records specimens collected by W. B. Richardson at Chepigana, Real 

 de Santa Maria, Tapalisa, Boca de Cupe and Cituro. These records 

 are republished by Anthony (1916, p. 365) with the addition of 

 Maxon Ranch (Rio Trinidad). 



Specimens examined : Boca de Cupe, 1 * ; Bocas del Toro, 1 ; 

 Boquete, 3*; Cana, 1; Chepigana, I 1 ; Cituro, I 1 ; Gatun (type 

 locality), 2 ; Maxon Ranch (Rio Trinidad), 1 *; Real de Santa Maria, 

 4 1 ; Tapalisa, 3. 1 



Order PERISSODACTYLA. Perissodactyls or 



Odd-toed Ungulates 



Family TAPIRIDAE. Tapirs 



The tapirs, the largest indigenous land mammals of Panama, are 

 the only existing American odd-toed ungulates. The single genus 

 Tapirella is known from the region ; the genus Tapirus has not been 

 reported, but may possibly occur. 



1 Collection Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



2 Collection Mus. Comp. Zool. 



