214 BULLETIN 56, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



"DistrlLution. — Formerly all of the higher parts of the White 

 Mountains of Arizona and the Mogollon Mountains of western New 

 Mexico. Now nearly extinct and limited to a small area in the 

 higher parts of the White Mountains (and possibly the MogoUons) . 



"General characters. — -Nose darker and head and legs more red- 

 dish than Oervus canadensis from the northern Rocky Mountains, 

 but paler than C. roosevelti Merriam, of the Northwest Coast Region. 

 Skull more massive with nasals broader and much more flattened, 

 and upper molar series heavier and more curved. Antlers most like 

 those of G. canadensis, but with tip straighter, thus giving much 

 longer chord from base to tip. 



"Summer pelage (type specimen). — Top of nose rich reddish chest- 

 nut brown becoming much paler and more yellowish along edges 

 of upper lips; and paler, more reddish fulvous on cheeks, foreliead, 

 and crown; pale areas around eyes dull dark buffy; chin dingy 

 buffy with large blackish brown spot on each side ; front of ears pale 

 buffy yellow; back of ears reddish brown; top of neck, entire back 

 and sides of body faded grizzled yellowish brown, darkest along mid- 

 dle of back and shading into pale dingy yellowish on flanks; rump 

 patch dingy yellowish white (not strongly contrasting with rest of 

 back) bordered along lower edge by narrow band of seal brown; 

 underside of neck and body dark brown, darkest on neck and more 

 reddish on belly; front of forelegs dark reddish brown becoming 

 paler (nearly vandyke brown) on sides and with median line behind 

 and around borders of hoofs reddish fulvous; hind legs similarly 

 colored but paler along front. 



"Winter pelage." — ' Body, above and on sides, pale yellowish brown, 

 this color extending over entire outer surfaces of shoulders and 

 hips and over all of buttocks and tail. Head and neck seal brown 

 with pale areas around commissure and eyes; ears whitish at base 

 and liver brown on posterior surfaces. Sides of neck paler than 

 underside of head and neck, the hairs being dark brown at base with 

 broad fulvous tips and brown annulations. Under surface of body, 

 with inner and posterior surfaces of legs, dark seal brown, a band of 

 the same color extending upward and outward from inside of thighs 

 toward hip joint. Front and outside of legs cinnamon-rufous, vary- 

 ing to fulvous. Hoofs black with fringe of buff-colored hairs at 

 base.' 



a " Dr. B. A. Mearns, U. S. A., has kindly given nie the accompanying descrip- 

 tion of the winter pelage of Cervus merriami, taken from the skin of No. 16211, 

 American Museum of Natural History. This specimen was secured by me in 

 the White Mountains in the fall of 1887, and passed into the hands of Dr. 

 Mearns, who afterwards presented it to the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. Fortunately, Dr. Mearns entered a brief description of the pelage in his 

 note book at the time, as the skin has since been accidentally destroyed." 

 [Footnote by Nelson,] 



