SPECIES OF -MAMMALIA. 



791. 21. C. Virgimanus (Yirginian Deer.) Horns mid- 

 dle-sized, tending to flatten, strongly bent back, and then 

 forwards; a basal antler on the internal side, pointing 

 backwards ; several snags on the posterior edge, turned to 

 the rear, and upwards; suborbital sinus making a fold, 

 and small ; muzzle ; colours fulvous in summer, gray-brown 

 in winter ; no disk. 



Var. Somewhat smaller; white coloured; triangle on 

 the feet ; black mark on the lower lip. 



Fallow-deer, Lawson, Catesby. Cervus Virginianus, 

 Auctor. Virginian Deer, Pent. Shaw. Cerf de Viginie, 

 Cerf de la Louisiane, Cuv. 



Icon. Fred. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. Encyclop. Cerf de la 

 Louisiane. Supl. xiii. Jig. 2. Nobis. 



Inhabit North America, from Canada to Mexico. 



792. 22. * C. Mexicanus (Mexican Deer.) Horns spread- 

 ing outwards, curving to the front with extremities to- 

 wards each other ; an antler on the anterior face of the 

 beam, pointing vertically, pointed or bifurcate, strongly 

 denticulated; another at posterior part of the beam, di- 

 vided into smaller snags ; from the second antler the horns 

 flatten into elongated palms, which in old specimens lie- 

 come very broad, with snags thrown off to the rear ; the 

 burr is replaced by large pearls, like incipient antlers ; the 

 beam tri-lateral; a muzzle; no canines. 



Cervus Mexicanus, Pe7it. Ginel. Quantia Mazame, 

 Hernandes. C. Ramosicornis, Blain. 



Icon. Pent. Buff.? Nobis. Specimen in British Museum. 



Inhabit Mexico. 



793. 23. * C. Clavatus, Nob. Horns deep yellow colour, 

 very robust, pearled, extending horizontally, and then 

 curving forwards and flattening; strong bifurcated vertical 

 antler at base ; on superior edge of beam, three bifurcate 



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