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ZOOLOGY. 



CARIACUS V1EG1NIANUS MACEUBOS, (Eaf.) Coues. 

 "White-tailed Deer. 



Cervus macrourus, Par, Am. Monthly Mag., i, 1817, ■430.— IJ. Smith, Griff. An. Kingil., 

 iv, 1827, 134; v, 1827, 310 (Kansas). 



Cervus leucurus, Dougl., Zoiil. Journ., iv, 1S29, 330.— Rich., F. B.A., i, 1S29, 258; 

 Zool. Beechey's Voy., 1839, 10.— Wagn., Snppl. Schreb., iv, 1814,375; v, 

 1S55, 372.— Pucn., Mon. du Cert'. Arch, du Mus., vi, 1852, 322.— Aud. & 

 Bach., Q. N. A., iii, 1853, 77, pi. 118.— Newb., P. 11. R. Pep., vi, 1857, 07.— 

 SUCKL., P. E. E. Pep., xii, 1859, 134.— Baird, Manini. ST. A., 1857, 049.— 

 Coues, Am. Nat., i, 1868, 537.— Tenney, Man. Zoiil., 1800, 98.— Stev., U. 

 S. Geol. Surv. Terr. 1870, 1871, 402. 



Long-tailed Red Deer, Lewis & Clark. 



Specimens. 



No. 



Name. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Remarks. 



190 

 191 9 



C. leucurus 



do 



San Luis Valley, Colo... 

 do 



Sept., 1S73 

 do 



Dr.J.T. Rothrock. 

 do 



Cranium. 

 Do. 











Observed in Colorado, where it was common in the vicinity of swampy 

 valleys. 



There is no question of the impropriety of separating this animal 

 specifically from C. virginianus. The point, indeed, is whether the differ- 

 ences are sufficient to constitute a fair geographical race. We, however, 

 present it provisionally as such. The above name is adopted from the Cervus 

 macrourus of Rafinesque, of prior date to leucurus of Douglas ; the two being 

 undoubtedly synonymous. The animal is of general distribution in the 

 West, like the true C. virginianus in the East, and is associated in most of 

 its range with the very different C. macrotis. 



CARIACUS VIRGINIANUS, var. 



Dwarf Beer of Arizona. 



Cervus 7tiexicanus, Baird, Matnm. N. A., 1857, 053 (whether of authors?). 

 Cervus virginianus var. coucsi, Potiirock, MSS. 



No. b'57, Camp Crittenden, Ariz., Sept., 1874, Dr. J. T. Rothrock ; <? , 

 with horns in the velvet. — The animal to lie here described is clearly of the 

 C. virginianus type, as shown by the characters of the herns and tail, but 

 is much smaller and otherwise different. 



