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land, Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and even further south. On 

 the Upper Missouri, and west, the Virginia Deer is replaced by an allied 

 race, the White-tailed Deer, CariacuB virginianus vmcrurus (Raf.) Coues. 



More northern specimens of the Virginia Deer are larger than those 

 further south ; the Deer of the southern seacoast and its islands are smaller 

 than those of the uplands and mountains of the same latitude. 



The Virginia Deer is rarely met with in Ohio at present, except as 

 domesticated in parks. 



Description of this well-known animal seems unnecessary here, especi- 

 ally since the publication of Judge Caton's treatise on the Antelope and 

 Deer of America. 



Genus Cervus Linnaeus. 

 Generic characters as given in the Key to Genera. 



Cervus canadensis Erxleben. 



Wapiti; or American Elk. 



1756. Cervus canadensis, Briss., Quad., 1756, 88. 



1777. Cervus elaphus, var. canadensis, Erxl., Syst., 1777, 305. — Bodd., Elench. 



Anim., 1784, 135. 



1809. Cervus wapiti. Barton, Am. Philos. Trans., vi, 1809, 70. 



1815. Cervus major, Ord, Guthrie's Geog., 2d Am. ed., 1815. 



1827. Cervus {Elaphus') canadensis. Griff., An. King., v. 1827, 308. 



1835. Cervus canadensis, Schreb., Saugt., v, 1835, 990, pi. 246, A. — Desmar., 



Mamm., ii, 182, 433.— Harlan, Fn. Amer.. 1825, 236.— Godman, 

 Am. Nat. Hist., ii, 1831, 294.— Maxim.. Reise, ii, 1839, 24, 84.— 

 Gray, P. Z. S , 1850, 226.— Giebel., Saugt., 1855, 348.— Baird, 

 Mamm., N. A., 1857, 338, f. 9 and 10. 



1836. Cervus sirongyloeeras, Schreb., Saug., v, 1836, pi. 247, F, G. — Rich., 



Fn. Bor. Am., i, 1829, 251. 

 1842. Elaphus canadensis, De Kay, N. Y. Zool., i, 1842, 118, pi. 18, f. 2.™ 



Aud. & Bach., Q. N. A., ii, 1851, 84, pi. 62.— Baird, Agric. Rep. 



U. S. Pat. Office, 1861-2, 116. 

 Specific Characters. — Hoofs short, broad and rounded. Tail short and 

 depressed. Larmiers nearly as long as eye ; naked portion of the muz- 

 zle inferiorly only half as wide as the septum of the nostrils. No naked 

 glandular space on the outer edge of the hind-legs, but a short, whitish 

 patch of hairs near the upper part of the metatarsus. 



In summer, ground color light chesnut-red, darkest on the neck and 

 legs ; throat and median ventral line dusky, almost black. Chin dusky, 

 with a narrow patch of light-yellowish on either side ; a broad, median, 



