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the hairs being long, fine, and soft, and slightly curled. Edge of 
the ear is black, which invades the inside on the lower anterior 
part. Below the opening of the ear it is surrounded by white 
which on the back side extends up nearly half the length of the 
ear. On the female is a small place of very black hair where the 
antler is situate on the male. On the Acapulco Deer the brisket 
is brown. ‘The posterior part of the inside of the fore leg is white 
extending to the elbow. The white inside the hind leg is con- 
fined to the broad part, thence down the leg is fulvous yellow, 
lighter behind than below. 
The strong resemblance of the Ceylon deer to this Acapulco 
deer, suggests the propriety of comparing them briefly. 
The Ceylon deer is larger than the Acapulco, but the differ- 
ence is not considerable. In form they are nearly alike, and in 
the general color of the winter coat there is not much difference, 
but in the summer dress the American species is decidedly 
darker and grayer than the other and has less of the red shade. 
In detail there is considerable difference in color or markings. 
The forehead of the Ceylon deer is marked much like those of 
the Mule deer and the Columbia deer. This is not observable on 
the female, nor is it seen on the male of the Acapulco deer. The 
faces of the Ceylon deer are grayer than those of the Acapulco 
deer, which are black. The ear is larger and has a denser coat 
of hair than the American species. Both are equally courageous 
and belligerent. The minor differences in color testify to no spe- 
cific differences, and but for the presence of the metatarsal gland 
in the one and not in the other, and the difference in the antlers, 
I should not hesitate to pronounce them specifically identical. 
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We have no species of deer, in North America at least, where 
the adult is uniformly adorned with the beautiful spots of the 
fallow deer of Europe. All of our species are born with a coat 
more or less ornamented with spots, generally white on a colored 
ground. These white spots must be considered more or less orna- 
mental. On the young of the moose and the caribou this orna- 
mentation has nearly faded out, so much so that the spots are 
not observed on all the specimens, and indeed only upon a small 
portion of the young of the moose. But because I could not find 
them on the few which I have examined, it would be folly in me 
to say that they never occur and that those who claim to have 
