CERVUS ACAPULCENSIS, Carton. 
Acapulco Deer. 
SmaLuust of all the North American deer.- Head broad and full. Eye 
prominent and bright. Ear small and thin, covered with very short, fine 
hair, black outside and white inside. Nostrils large. Nose naked and 
moist. Neck slim, tapering, and elevated. Body short, round, and com- 
pact. Legs short and slim. Accessory hoofs small. Tail short, bushy, 
and rather flat. Antlers small and short, and flattened towards upper 
part, and notched at end, with small basal snags; beams are triangular 
near base. Pedicels high and far apart. Metatarsal gland wanting. Tar- 
sal gland present. Face black. Under the head and throat white, but 
proportionally less than on common deer. Neck, back, and sides, dark 
chestnut brown; darkest on top of neck and back. Brisket nearly 
black. Belly, inguinal region up to the tail, and under side of that mem- 
ber, white. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
After diligent search, I find but one mention of this deer by 
which I am enabled to recognize it. This occurs in a sentence 
in Audubon and Bachman’s “ Quadrupeds of North America” 
(vol. ii. p. 200), when treating of our antelope. I will quote the 
sentence entire: “‘ The Antelope has no lachrymal pits under the 
eyes, as have Deer and Elks, nor has it any gland on the hind leg, 
so curious a feature in many of those animals of the deer tribe, 
which drop their horns annually, and only wanting (so far as our 
knowledge extends) in the Cervus Richardsonii, which we con- 
sider in consequence as approaching the genus Antelope, and in 
a small deer from Yucatan and Mexico, of which we had a living 
specimen for some time in our possession.” 
I cannot forbear correcting some of the important errors ex- 
pressed in this single sentence. Of all authors which I have 
consulted, here alone Cervus Columbianus is given the name of 
Cervus Richardsonit. Instead of being destitute of the metatar- 
sal gland, it is the most conspicuous on him of any of the deer 
family, except the mule deer, and the learned authors should 
have known that that gland is wanting both on the moose and on 
the caribou. They did not consider this gland of sufficient impor- 
tance to require particular study, but merely considered it a curious 
feature ; yet for its supposed absence they make an antelope of 
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