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range as from 1,500 to 1,868 meters (4,921 to 6,129 feet) in the zone 

 of alligator juniper. The cattlemen to whom I showed the specimen 

 assured me that" the species was recognized by them as different from 

 the whitetail or the mule deer. 



In 1889 Dr. D. G. Elliot saw more black-tailed deer in the Mogol- 

 lon or San Francisco Mountains of western New Mexico, which from 

 his description I supposed to be the Crook deer. 



The Hualapai Indians were evidently acquainted with this deer, 

 although they have no special name for it. When shown a specimen 

 and asked to name it, an Indian named Qua-su-la replied, "Akwa'ka. 

 jMim sabe ! " But the Hualapai call the mule deer "Akwa'ka." 



When shown the skin of the first specimen of Crook's deer, the 

 Hopi said it was " Pe ash' Book tse ga." 



We saw none west of the San Luis range, and learned nothing of 

 its habits beyond the fact that it is agile and shy. 



ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS CANUS Merriam. 

 MEXICAN MULE DEER. 



Odoooileus hemionim caiius Merriam, Pi-oc. Wash. Acad. Sci., Ill, p. 560, 



Nov. 29, 1901 (original description). 

 Odocoileus hemionus canus, Miller and Rehn, Proc. Bost. Nat Hist., 



XXXI, !^o. 3, Aug. 27, 1903, p. 68 (Syst. Results Study N. Am. Mam. 



during 1901 and 1902). 

 [Odontoctelus hcmionug] canus, Elliot, Field Col. JIus., Zool. Ser., IV, Pt. 



1, 1904, p. 78 (Mam. Mid. Am.). 

 Cuervo (Cacalote) of tbe Mexicans. 

 Akwa'ka of the Hualapai Indians of northern Arizona. 

 .Sho-we'n'-hua; Cho-we'-e T)oolk-tsi-ga' ; Schu-tve'-nig-icvli of the Hopi. 



Type-locality. — S'erra en Media, Chihuahua, Mexico (Type, No. 

 99361, U.S.N.M.). 



Georgraphical range. — Inhabits southwest Texas, New Mexico, 

 Arizona, and northern Mexico, ranging from the Sonoran to the 

 Boreal zone in altitude. On the Boundary it was found from the 

 Sierra Blanca Mountains, Texas, to the Huachuca Mountains, Ari- 

 zona. 



Description. — Smaller, paler, and grayer than in typical Odocoileus 

 hemionus from Dakota. It also differs considerably from the mule 

 deer of northern Arizona, which I tentatively include with it, espe; 

 daily in having a trace of a black line on the upper side of the tail, and 

 in having smaller antlers and larger hoofs. An immature male (No. 

 ||4^,U.S.N.M.), killed at White Water, Chihuajiua, Mexico, June 

 21, 1892, is first described because coming from near the type locality 

 (Sierra en Media, in the State of Chihuahua)-. This individual, which 

 was in faded winter coat, had horns — probably of the third year — in 

 the velvet, 110 mm. in length, showing the basal snag. The animal 

 was small, in rather poor flesh, and rather young but with mature 



