SYNOPSIS OF THE 



snags, two others co the front at the summit, and one long 

 heavy clavate and flattened branch hanging downwards 

 from the inferior edge. 



Icon. Nobis from the collection of Mr. Brooks. 



Inhabits— ? probably America. 



794. 24. C. Macrotis (Great-eared Deer.) Horns slightly 

 grooved, and tuberculated at base ; small antler on the in- 

 ternal anterior side of the beam ; the beam less bent for- 

 wards, equally bifurcated at half its length, and each bi- 

 furcation again divided near the summit ; the anterior snag 

 of the posterior fork the longest ; ears very long, (seven 

 inches,) reaching to the forking of the horns ; lateral teeth 

 larger than in the Virginian : colour reddish-brown ; dull 

 cinereous about nose ; tail reddish-cinereous, compressed ; 

 almost naked beneath; dark line on the neck near the 

 head. 



Great-eared Deer. Cervus Macrotis, Say. Harlan. Ma- 

 jor Lo7ig's Expedition. Mule Deer ? Lewis and Clark. 



Icon. 



Habitat the remotest north-western territories of the 

 United States of America. 



79.5. 2.5. * C. Macrourus (Long-tailed Deer.) Horns 

 short, small, somewhat flattened ; colour dark; belly white; 

 tail nearly eighteen inches long, black above, edged with 

 white, and held up erect when running; larger than the 

 Red-deer, (C. Virginianus ?) 



Long-tailed Deer. Cervus Macrourus. Black-tailed 

 Deer, Warden. Deer with a large tail, Lewis and Clark? 

 Le Raye. 



Icon. 



Inhabit about the River Kansas, Central North America. 



796. 26. C Paludosus (Guazupuco Deer.) Horns rather 



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