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trous; ear small and trim; antlers have a spreading posterior projection, 
and then curve anteriorly with posterior tines; neck long and slender; 
body long for its size; tail long and lanceolate in form; legs straight 
and long. 
Lachrymal sinus covered with a fold of skin; tarsal gland present; 
metatarsal gland small, and below the middle of the leg, naked, and sur- 
rounded by white hairs; outside of these there is usually a band of dark 
brown hairs, which are surrounded by long reversed hairs of the color 
of the leg. 
Two annual pelages. Summer coat, from bay red to buff yellow; 
winter coat, a leaden gray, greatly variant. Deciduous antlers, and con- 
fined to the males. 
Common Deer. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
This deer has the widest range of any member of the family 
in any part of the world. Its range is from the Atlantic to the 
Pacific, extending into Canada and British Columbia on the 
north, and penetrating far into Mexico on the south. It may be 
found to-day, in every State and Territory of the United States. 
It inhabits alike the dense woodlands and the open prairies, the 
high mountains and the lowest valleys, the arid plains and the 
marshy swamps. 
As we might well expect from its wide distribution and varied 
