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BULLETIN 56, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



I 

 Fig. 21. — Odocoileus 



HE MI ON us CANUS. 



Metatarsal gland. 

 (Cat. No. 20570, U.S. 

 N.M.) 



dentition. Its weight, as killed, before evisceration, was 103 pounds 

 (46.72 kilos.). Head and neck yellowish drab-gray, with a horse- 

 shoe mark of brownish black, grizzled posteriorly, 

 occupying the crown; blackish along the anterior 

 margin of the ear, around the eye, and on the end 

 of the muzzle, laterally and superiorly, the latter 

 connected with the horse-shoe mark of the crown by 

 a faint, median, dusky line. Muzzle of a coarser 

 pepper-and-salt mixture of grizzled drab. Region 

 from base of ear to orbit dirty yellowish gray. 

 Inner surface of ear very scantily coated with long, 

 crinkled, grayish- white hairs. The legs are ochra- 

 ceous buff externally, cream-buff internally, with 

 the bushy hair surrounding the metatarsal gland 

 (fig. 21) cream buff. The tail is long and slender, 

 short-haired, bare underneath at base, white with a 

 black terminal brush of bushy hair; there is a faint 

 indication of a colored line along its- upper surface 

 (fig. 22). 



An adult male in newly-acquired winter pelage 

 (No. tVAV, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y.), killed at 

 Fossil Creek, in central Arizona, November 27, 

 ISSo, weighed 128 pounds after being eviscerated 

 and hung up in camp for several days. Upper parts nearly uniform 

 grizzled lalumbeous-gray, the individual hairs being pale at base, 

 then ash-gray, subterminally annulated 

 with white, the pointed tii3s being black; 

 underparts, from neck to hinder abdomen, 

 fuliginous-black, darkest in the median 

 line, this color extending well up on the 

 flanks and gradually becoming grayish; 

 throat whitish; inner side of limbs whit- 

 ish, this gradually shading into the brown- 

 ish-yellow color of the outside of the 

 limbs ; outer surface of the fore legs, down 

 to the ankle, and of the hind legs, down to 

 the tibio-tarsal joint, colored like the back, 

 but with a slight mixture of reddish or 

 yellowish 'brown. 



A young buck (No. 285, Mearns's collec- 

 tion), killed at the same time and place, 

 ha^'ing singly-forked horns, is indistin- 

 guishable in coloration from the adult 

 above described, save that the blackish area inclosed by the oars, eyes, 

 and horns is less grizzled and mixed with grayish white. The white 



Fig. 22. — Odocoileus hemionus ca- 

 Ni'S. a, Upper si'rface of tail; 



b, LOWER SURFACE. 



