170 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Q. — Odocoileus virg-inianus costaricensis. 



Odoooileus oosta^ricensis, Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 



xiv, p. 35, 1901, List N. Amer. Mamm. p. 386, 1912. 

 Odontocoelus costaricensis, Elliot, Mamm. Mid. Amer. and W. Indies 



{Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. iv), p. 73, 1904, Chech-List Mamm. 



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



Typical locality Talamanca district, Eastern Costa Eica, 

 between coast and Cordilleran foot-hills. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 



Larger and lighter-coloured than 0. v. trud ; general 

 colour mingled buff and black — owing to annulation of 

 hairs — darkest on top of head, neck, and fore-part of back ; 

 ears dark brownish grey, white internally ; tail cinnamon 

 above (like limbs), with dusky tip. 



65. 5. 18. 36. Skin, female. Costa Eica; collected by 

 0. Salvin, Esq. Purchased, 1865. 



65. 5. 18. 37. Skin. Same locality and collector. 



Same history. 



67. 8. 23. 2 (1374, g). Frontlet and antlers. Costa Eica. 



Purchased {Carmiol), 1867. 



R.— Odocoileus virginianus nemoralis. 



Cervus nemoralis, H. 8m,ith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, 



p. 137, 1827 ; Pucherari, Arch. Mils. Paris, vol. vi, p. 336, 1852. 

 Cervus (Mazama) nemoralis, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 



vol. V, p. 317, 1827. 

 Mazama nemoralis, Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. iii, 



p. 175, 1835. 

 Cariacus nemoralis. Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Eegne Anim., Mamm. p. 173, 



1842 ; Gray, Gat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 232, 1852 ; Matschie, 



Mitt, geogr. Ges. Liibeck, 1894, p. 130. 

 Reduncina nemoralis, Fitzinger, Sitzber. h. Ale. Wiss. Wien, vol. 



Ixviii, pt. 1, p. 357, 1873, vol. Ixxviii, p. 338, 1879. 

 Mazama americana nemoralis, Lydelelcer, Deer of All Lands, p. 264, 



1898; Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 349, 1901. 

 Odontocoelus nemoralis, Elliot, Mamm. Mid. Amer. and W. Indies 



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



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



Typical locality unknown ; the range extends from 

 Honduras to Panama. 



Generally similar to 0. v. truei (height about 28 or 29 

 inches) ; metatarsal gland very small (occasionally obsolete), 

 situated about half-way up shank, with scarcely any white 



