114 THE DEER OF AMERICA. 
a deer. The real value of the sentence is in the last two lines, in 
which the author says hé had in his possession a small deer from 
Yucatan (?) and Mexico, in which this gland was wanting, by 
which we are enabled to recognize it with as much certainty as if 
he had given the most elaborate description. In our deer this 
gland is wanting also, which distinguishes it from all of the 
smaller deer in this country. 
This exceedingly beautiful animal first attracted my attention 
in Woodward’s Gardens in San Francisco, where I found one 
female. The next day I learned that Governor Latham had re- 
ceived a specimen by the steamship Repudlic, and hastened to 
his country residence at Menlo Park, where I had the good for- 
tune to meet the Governor, who had the deer still in the cage, 
which he at once told me to consider my own. Here I had an 
opportunity to study her with all the leisure and care I desired. 
I then turned her loose in his park to recruit, and examined the 
rest of his herd of deer. I found he had six species: the wapiti, 
the mule deer, the Columbia black-tailed deer, the Virginia 
deer (called in the West the white-tailed or long-tailed deer), 
this same Acapulco or South Mexican or Central American Deer 
(some of which the keeper told me came from Panama, and some 
from Southern Mexico), and one buck from the Island of Ceylon. 
Here was a rare opportunity for study which I enjoyed. The 
keeper took me to the remains of an Acapulco buck, the first ever 
introduced to the park, which had lately died of old age, as he 
said, and was now dried up, but was still susceptible of examina- 
tion, at least in some important particulars. There was no mis- 
taking its identity with the specimen just presented to me. 
I secured the skin of the outside of one hind leg for microscopic 
examination for the metatarsal gland, the antlers, and a part of 
the skull attached, which are shown in the illustration. These 
antlers differ so widely from any others with which I have ever 
met or seen described or illustrated, that, if typical, they declare 
a distinct species, were there not abundant other specific differ- 
ences to attest the same truth. Under the proper head these will 
be fully described, when they can be compared with the antlers 
of the other species of deer. 
This deer is decidedly darker in color than the common deer, 
with some important differences in the location of the white and 
the dark portions, which will be particularly explained in the 
proper place. 
Mr. Woodward presented me with one female of this species, 
