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species *. The above specific denomination may therefore 

 be still proposed, and as we have shewn, there are in 

 this article, perhaps, altogether three species indicated ; 

 or we must assume, that the Virginian or Mazame group, 

 although it consist of one species only, has, nevertheless, 

 a most extensive variety of forms in the very parts of 

 the horns where specifical distinctions are allowed to reside. 

 Great-eared Deer. (Cervus Macrotis.) This animal 

 which may be the younger state of one of the preceding, is 

 described by Dr. Say, as light reddish-brown above ; the 

 sides of the nose and upper portion of the forepart of the 

 nose dull cinereous; the back intermixed with blackish 

 tipped hairs, which form a distinct line on the neck near 

 the head ; tail reddish-cinereous black at tip ; this part is 

 somewhat compressed, and almost naked beneath: the hoofs 

 are shorter and wider than those of the Virginian Deer, 

 and more like those of the Wapiti ; the horns slightly 

 grooved and tuberculated at base, with a similar antler as 

 in the Virginian ; the beam less curved forwards, is bifur- 

 cated equally at about seven inches from the burr, and each 

 bifurcation near the summit again divided, the anterior of 

 the second bifurcation being somewhat longer than the 

 posterior ; the ears very long, extend to the principal bi- 

 furcation, about half the length of the whole horn ; the 

 lateral incisor teeth are larger in proportion to the interme- 

 diate than in the Virginian ; eye-lashes black ; lachrymal 

 apertures also larger, and the hair coarser, and undulated 

 and compressed like that of the Wapiti f. The species is 



* When my drawings were made, I had no knowledge of the 

 method adopted in the Osse.mens Fossiles, or I would have designed 

 my figures in a similar point of view. 



t This account taken from Dr. Harlan's Fauna Americana, says 

 Elk in this citation, but as that word is by him applied to Wapiti, 

 we presume it is the animal here meant. It is to be regretted that 

 the accurate Dr. Say has not published figures of the horns. 



