THE DEER OF AMERICA. 
To the First Class of the Second Division of the First Group of 
Ruminants I have assigned the Cervide. On this continent they 
are more widely distributed, and more numerous than either of 
the other members of the group, while in some other parts of 
the world they are excelled in numbers by those assipnea to the 
First Class of the First Division. 
There are native of North America, eight distinct and well 
defined species of the Genus Cervus, namely : — 
j. Cervus ALCEs. 
Moose Deer. 
2. CeRvUS CANADENSIS. 
Wapiti Deer. American Elk. 
3. Cervus TARANDUS. 
Woodland Caribou. Reindeer. 
4, Cervus Macrotis. 
Mule Deer. 
5. CERVUS COLUMBIANUS. 
Columbia Black-tailed Deer. 
6. CERVUS VIRGINIANUS. 
Common or Virginia Deer. 
7. Cervus TARANDUS ARCTICA. 
Barren-ground Caribou. Reindeer. 
8. CeRVUS ACAPULCENSIS. 
Acapulco Deer. 
There may be and probably are, several other distinct species 
in Mexico and Central America, but I am not sufficiently in- 
formed to speak of them with assurance ; so I leaye them as 
proper subjects for future investigation, and confine myself to 
those of which I can speak with some confidence. 
It will be observed that I retain the reindeer in this genus, 
following Cuvier, for instance, rather than go with Hamilton 
