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8. 3. 7. 53. Skull and skin, female Coast district, 

 Demerara, British Guiana. 



Presented hy F. V. McGonnell, Esq., 1908. 



8. 3. 7. 54. Skull and skin of a rather larger and older 

 female. Same locality. Same history. 



X.— Odocoileus virg-inianus margaritae, 



Odocoileus margaritte, Osgood, Field Mus. Zool. Put. vol. x, p. 24, 

 1910, pis. ii and iii. 



Typical (and only) locality Margarita Island, Venezuela. 



Type in Field Museum, Chicago. 



An insular representative of 0. v. gymtiotis distinguished 

 by its smaller size, and the proportionately small skull and 

 teeth, the former of which is characterised by the abruptly 

 elevated brain-case. 



IS'o specimen in collection. 



Y.— Odocoileus virginianus spinosus. 



Cervus spinosus, Gay and Oervais, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 3, 



vol. V, p. 93, 1846. 

 Cervus savannarum, Cabanis and Schomhurgh, Beisen Brit. Ouiana, 



voL iii, p. 785, 1848. 

 Cariacus (?) spinosus. Gray, Cat. TJngulata Brit. Mus. p. 286, 1852. 

 Eeduncina savannarum, Fitzinger, Sitzher. h. Ah. Wiss. Wien, voL 



Ixviii, pt. 1, p. 358, 1873, vol. Ixxviii, p. 242, 1879. 

 Cariacus savannarum, BrooTce, Proa. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 920 ; Matschie, 



Mitt. Geogr. Oes. LiibecTc, 1894, p. 130. 

 Mazama americana savannarum, Lydehlter, Deer of All Lands, 



p. 266, 1898, Great and Small Game of Euro;pe, etc. p. 352, 1901. 

 Mazama spinosa, LydeVker, Deer of All Lands, p. 280, 1898. 

 (?) Doroelaphus americanus savannarum, PococJc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1910, p. 962. 

 Odocoileus spinosus, Osgood, Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. x, p. 138, 



1914 ; cited as Cervus spinosus, but included under the heading 



Odocoileus. 



Typical locality Cayenne, French Guiana. 



Type (a single antler) in Paris Museum. 



According to Osgood, the Guianan representative of 0. v. 

 gymnotis, but generally stated to have well-haired ears and 

 a metatarsal gland,* the general colour being clear greyish 



* Vide Pocock, op. cit. ; vs'hether his specimen be rightly identified 

 or no, his recognition that it is merely a race of the whitetail agrees 

 with the views of the present writer. 



