812 General Notes. [August, 
so uniform in size as in the Eastern or mountain variety. Of the 
three specimens now under observation, one, a male, one year 
old, has the largest and coarsest ear I ever saw on one of the 
species of that age, being eight inches in length; while the pair 
in the adjoining paddock, belonging to Mr. Palmer, are two 
years old, have ears seven inches in length, which are smaller 
than the average of the species, though still larger than those of 
Cervus columbianus, which has the next largest ear for the size 
of the animal of any of the American deer. In color, too, they 
are more variable than the mountain variety. The yearling speci- 
men above described, belonging to Mr. Simmons, is of the dark 
gray color, so uniform in the mountain variety, from which no 
one would think of distinguishing it, but for the peculiar coloring 
of the. tail, which is after all the most distinguishing feature of 
this variety from the other, and in these specimens is more pro- 
nounced than on the specimens procured at Santa Barbara. 
In the mountain variety the entire tail is a yellowish white, 
except a jet black tuft at the end, while on the California variety 
ere is a dark line extending on the top or upper side all of the 
way down to the terminal black tuft. In the Santa Barbara 
specimens this dark line down the tail was of the color of the 
coat above, while on these the dark line is black like the terminal 
tuft—at least this is the case with the yearling buck and the two 
year old doe, which are evidently of normal color. The two- 
year-old buck, however, is of a much brighter color than any 
other Macrotis, which I have seen. While it is not a white 
deer it approaches the white, the ears being the darkest, or 
nearest the normal color of any part of the animal. On the tail of 
this deer the dark line is much obliterated, but not entirely so. 
That which distinguishes C. macrotis from all other deer is 
that the under side of the tail is naked to about the same extent 
as the horse’s tail. This peculiar feature is observed on all of the 
Specimens of both varieties to the same extent. 
The habitat of C. macrotis is from the Missouri river to the Pacific 
limits.—/. D. Caton. 
_ THE GREEK AND THE Mopern Foor.—lIt is well known that 
the Greeks represent the second toe as longer than the great toein 
their statues, while in the modern European foot, the great toe 1s 
generally the longer. In this respect, as stated by Albrecht, the 
: 2 Greek foot is more quadrumanous thanthe modern. Theantique 
_ Statues generally represent the great toe as standing further from 
_ the second than is seen in the moderns. This might also be a 
_ Quadrumanous cter according to Schaffhausen, but Albrecht 
