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of the throat and inner aspect of limbs above is nearly pure and un- 

 mixed. The head and neck lack the fullness of the old stag, being 

 shaped like the does. 



Two old does (Nos. 283 and 284, Mearns collection), killed at the 

 same time and place as the two males last described, differ in color in 

 being much paler, with more yellowish suffusion throughout, espe-, 

 cially in the region of the axillae and upon the outer side of the hips. 



An adult male (No. 293, Mearns collection), killed between Clear 

 and Sycamore creeks, tributaries of the Verde River in central Ari- 

 zona, December 22, 1885, weighed about 175 pounds. This specimen 

 had developed a coarse, almost shaggy coat, having completed the 

 Avinter dress which hunters designate the " blue " coat. The hairs of 

 the upper parts are bluish gray, but black and white annuli and 

 points give a general pepper-and-salt effect to the coloration. The 

 individual hairs are verj^ pale bluish gray at base, subterminally 

 annulated with whitish, the rings succeeded by tapering black points. 

 The color is darkest in the median line above, especially from between 

 the horns to the interscapular region and on a tuft of long hair at the 

 end of the rump, covering the base of the tail, in these places 

 many of the hairs being black throughout or with a very broad point- 

 ing of black and narrow annuli of whitish. Upon the sides and hips 

 the annuli are broader and rusty tinted, giving a paler and slightly 

 ferruginous cast to those parts. The hair surrounding the white 

 buttocks is more decidedly rusty. The chest is sooty-plumbeous, 

 darkest in front, fading to white on the inner surface of the thighs 

 and hinder part of the abdomen, the white of the latter parts chang- 

 ing to pale yellowish brown on the inner side of the limbs at the heel. 

 The mixed gray, black, and white color of the dorsum extends down- 

 ward upon the outer side of the hind limbs nearly to the heel, the 

 ferruginous washing to the white annuli appearing more strongly 

 below, though changing quite abruptly to rusty brown just above the 

 heel joint. The axillae are white, changing upon the lower part of 

 the fore limbs to creamy white. The color of the outer side of the 

 forearm, from the elbow to the wrist, gradually becomes rusty brown. 

 Below the radio-carpal joint the fore limb is creamy white on the inner 

 and posterior surfaces down to the upper digits. The interdigital 

 region is densely coated with long hairs, which are darker than the 

 surrounding hair, this perhaps being due to earth staining. -The 

 anterior and outer aspect down to the hoofs is distinctly rusty or 

 cinnamon color, the hairs being sooty at base instead of unicolor 

 throughout, as are the whitish hairs of the opposite surface. The hind 

 limbs, from the tibio-tarsal joint to the hoofs, are rusty yellowish 

 brown upon the outer surface, and much paler upon the inner aspect. 

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