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the skins. I collected, however, information respecting them, which induces me 
to refer one to the Cervus macrotis of Say, and the other to the Cervus leucurus of 
Douglas, which is the long-tailed common fallow deer of Lewis and Clark. They 
are both said to be of a grey colour, but differ in size, in the length of their tails, 
and in their gait. The larger one (C. macrotis) when roused, makes off by 
uninterrupted bounds, raising all its feet from the ground at once, and vibrating 
its black-tipped tail from side to side; while the small one trots a few steps, 
makes a great bound, and trots again, much like the Cervus Virginianus. 
If these indications be correct, the Cervus macrotis may be said to inhabit the 
whole extent of the plains of the Missouri, Saskatchewan, and Columbia; and 
according to Lewis and Clark, it is the only species to be found on the Mountains 
in the vicinity of the first falls of the Columbia. They are numerous on the 
Quamash Flats, which border on the Kooskooskee River. Their most northern 
range is the banks of the Saskatchewan, in about latitude 54°, and they do not 
come to the eastward of longitude 105° in that parallel. This deer being an 
inhabitant on the east side of the mountains of a district frequented by immense 
herds of buffalo, and also by the large moose deer and wapiti, is of small esteem 
amongst the Indians in that quarter, and has attracted but little attention from the 
traders: hence, with the exception of a brief notice by Umfreville, it was almost 
unknown to naturalists until Lewis and Clark’s expedition gave some information 
respecting: it. 
. DESCRIPTION 
Of a male specimen, killed in January, 1827, noted as full-grown, but not old, now in the Zoological Museum. 
Size.—Height about that of the Woodland-caribou ; weight, said to be about two hundred- 
weight. Horns, cylindrical, twice forked, the first fork situated ten inches from the base, the 
second one six inches from the first. The stem has a direction upwards, outwards, and a 
little backwards, with a gentle curvature. It is two inches apart from its fellow at its union 
with the scull, and its lower part is rough, and somewhat knobbed. One of the anterior 
knobs in this specimen seems to be the rudiment of a snag or branchlet. At the first bifur- 
cation one branch projects directly forwards, the other is nearly erect. Each fork subdivides 
into two tapering branchlets, nine or ten inches long; one branchlet of each pair curves 
forwards, and has its point turned a little inwards, the other is rather taller, and more 
upright. The horns are compressed for a short space at the forks: their total height is 
twenty inches, their summits, or the most erect of the posterior pair of points, are fifteen 
inches apart; and the superior points of the anterior pair are twenty inches apart. The 
horns want the small basal process which exists in Mr. Say’s specimen. The lachrymal 
openings* are large, and situated close beneath the eye. The ears reach to the bifurcation of 
* Larmiers. FreNcH AuTHORS. Crumens (th.crumena,abag.) FLEMING. 
