CERVIDJ5 167 



L.— Odocoileus vipg-inianus toltecus. 



Cervus toltocus, Saussurc, Bev. Mag. Zool. ser. 2, vol. xii, p. 247, 1860. 

 Coassus toltecus, Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 92, 1872. 

 Cervus yucatensis. Says, Ann. Lye. Neiu York, vol. x, p. 218, 1874. 

 Cariaous toltecus, Broohe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 921 ; Alston, 



Biol. Centr.-Amer., Mamm. p. 117, 1879 ; True, Proc. U.S. Nat. 



Mus. vol. vii, p. 592, 1885. 

 Mazaina americana tolteca, Lydehher, Deer of All Lands, p. 263, 1898, 



Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 348, 1901. 

 Odocoileus toltecus. Miller and Sehn, Proc. Boston Nat. Hist. Soc. 



vol. XXX, p. 117, 1901. 

 Odontoccelus toltecus, Elliot, Mamm. Mid. Amer. and W. Indies 



{Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. iv), p. 74, 1904, Check-List. Mamm. 



N. Amer. etc. {ibid. vol. vi) p. 46, 1905. 



Typical locality near Orizaba, State of Vera Cruz, 

 Mexico, whence tliis race ranges into Mecantan, South- 

 eastern Mexico. 



Size very small, about one-third less than that of typical 

 race; tail relatively long; antlers short, upright, nearly 

 straight, and semi-palmate, with little forward projection of 

 the lower prong of the main fork, and the number of tines 

 reduced ; metatarsal gland and tuft wanting ; general colour, 

 at all seasons, dark chestnut-brown ; face blackish ; under- 

 parts white ; tail, which is truncated at the tip, brown above. 



The aborted antlers and absence of metatarsal gland are 

 degraded features, the former being only a degenerate 

 modification of those of 0. v. mexicanus, while a transition 

 to the loss of the metatarsal gland occurs iu the case of 

 0. V. nelsoni and 0. v. nemoralis, in which it is rudimentary. 



56. 12. 14. 1-2 (IS^i, a-h). Two frontlets and antlers. 

 Vera Cruz. Purchased {Salle), 1856. 



M.— Odocoileus virginianus acapulcensis. 



Cervus acapulcensis, Caton, Antelope and Deer of America, p. 117, 



1877. 

 Odocoileus acapulcensis, Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc, Washington, 



vol. xii, p. 104, 1898 ; Miller, List N. Amer. Mamm. p. 386, 1912. 



Typical locality Acapulco, State of Guerrero, Mexico. 

 Closely allied to the preceding race, with which it is 

 identified by Elliot. 



No specimen in collection. 



