KEY TO LAND MAMMALS OF NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA 83 



SUBSPECIES OF ODOCOILEUS AMERICANUS 



Size medium ; teeth relatively small (lower 



row of cheek teeth 75 (3) in length) ; 



gray winter coat not well developed. . O. americanus americanus 

 Size large ; teeth relatively large (lower 



row of cheek teeth 85 (3f ) in length) ; 



gray winter coat well developed O. americanus borealis 



Odocoileus americanus americanus (Erxleben) Southern 



Virginia deer 



nn [Cervusdaraa] americanus Erxleben, Syst. regn. anim. 1 : 312 

 (Virginia) 



Size medium; teeth small, the row of lower cheek teeth 75 (3) in length; 

 winter pelage not conspicuously grayer or coarser than summer pelage ; horns slender, 

 540 (21|-) in length, 90 (3^) in circumference at base, (americanus; N. 

 Lat., American) 



The southern Virginia deer is an inhabitant of the austral zones. Its 

 range is not at present understood in detail ; and it may eventually be 

 found that the animal does not enter our limits. 



Odocoileus americanus borealis, subsp. nov. ^ Northern 



Virgi7iia deer 



Cariacns Virginian u s Auct. (not C er v us v irginianus Boddaert, 

 which isO. a me ricanus americanus) 

 1898. Mazama americana Lydekker, The deer of all lands, p. 249. (part) 



Size, large; teeth large, the row of lower cheek teeth 85 (3^) in length; 

 winter pelage coarse, usually much tinged icith gray, very different from summer 

 pelage; horns robust, 540 (2,1^) in leogth, 120 (4f) in circumference at base, 

 (boredlis; Lat., northern) 



The northern Virginia deer is an inhabitant of the Canadian zone. It 

 is abundant throughout northern New York, northern New England and 

 southeastern Canada. The limits of its range are not known. 



Order Glires Rodeiits 



Front teeth long, chisel shaped; cheek teeth broad, short, flat-crowned; a 

 wide toothless space between front teeth and cheek teeth. (Gil- res; Lat., a 

 dormouse) 



1 Type, adult male (skin and skull) No. 4999, collection of E. A. and O. Bangs, Bucksport, Maine, 

 12 Dec. 1895. Collected by Alvah G. Dorr. 



Some of the measurements of this specimen are as follows: total length, 1830 (6 ft; ; tail 280 (11 

 in.) (from fresh specimen by collector). Skull, greatest length 340(13%), basal length, 310 (1234), 

 zygomatic breadth, 130 (5); length of upper tooth row, 83 (334); greatest width between outer sides 

 of upper tooth row, 83 (3M), lower tooth row, 83 (3}4). 



