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race, although not so dark as in occidtntalis ; tines of antlers 

 less curved than in typical race; nasals broader and flatter ; 

 upper series of cheek-teeth stouter and more curved. 



D.— Cervus canadensis nannodes. 



(?) Cervus maral oalifornioa, Severtzow, Turhestan. Javoinie, 1873, 



p. 103, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii, p. 386, 1876. 

 Cervus nannodes, Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xviii, 



p. 83, 1905; Elliot, Check-List Ma^nm. N. Amer. {Zool. Piih. 



Field Mils. vol. vi) p. 42, 1905 ; Miller, List N. Amer. Mamm. 



p. 385, 1912. 



Typical locality Buttouwillow, Kern County, California. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 



Size smaller and legs relatively shorter than in any of 

 the preceding races; general colour pale and rump-patch 

 small in comparison with that of other races. There are also 

 skull-differences. 



The range appears to be mainly, if not entirely, restricted 

 to the San Joaquin Valley, but formerly included the higher 

 ridges of the White and Mogollon Mountains of Arizona and 

 New Mexico. 



No specimen in collection. 



E. — Cervus canadensis xanthopyg-us. 



Cervus elaphus, Pallas, Zoogr. Bosso-Asiat. p. 216, 1811 ; Schrencli, 

 Beis. und Forsch. im Amur-Lande, vol. i, p. 171, 1851 ; Badde, 

 Beise Siid-Ost-Siberien, pt. i, p. 284, 1862 ; nee Linn. 



Cervus xanthopygus, Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. ser. 5, 

 vol. viii, p. 376, 1869, Bech. Mamm. p. 181, pi. xxi, 1870-74; 

 Fitzinger, Sitzher. h. Ale. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixix, pt. 1, p. 590, 

 1874 ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 68 ; Lydekker, Deer of 

 All Lands, p. 81, pi. iii, 1898 ; Pousargues, Mem. Soc. Zool. 

 France, vol. xi, p. 205, 1898 ; Allen and Andrews, Bzill. Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xxxii, p. 488, 1813. 



Cervus liihdorfi, Bolau, Ahh. Ver. Hamburg, vol. vii, p. 33, pi. i^ , 

 1880 ; Fitzinger, Sitzher. k. Ah. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixxxlii, p. 373, 

 1881 ; Pousargues, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vol. xi, p. 209, 1898 

 (as a synonym of xanthopygus). 



Cervus luehdorfi, Sclaier, List. Anim. Zool. Gardens, p. 263, 1883. 



Cervus isubra, Noack, Humboldt, vol. viii, p. 6, fig. 5, 1889. 



Cervus bedfordianus, Lydekker, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 932, pis. 

 xxxviii and xxxix, Deer of All Lands, p. 101, 1898 (as a synonym 

 of xanthopygus). 



Cervus canadensis luehdorfi, Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, p. 102, 

 1898. 



