MAMMALIA. Boe 
CrErvus macrotis, var. @. Columbiana. 
Black-tailed fallow deer. Lrwts and Crank, vol. iii. pp. 26, 125. 
Long-tailed deer. GriFFITH, Anim. Kingd., vol. iv. p. 134. 
Cervus macrourus. IDEM, vol.v. No. 795. 
Whether this be distinct or not from the Cervus macrotis, 1 am unable to say, 
having seen no specimens, and knowing it only from the short account by Lewis 
and Clark. Mr. Griffith, following Warden, has confounded this with the ‘ long- 
tailed fallow deer’ of these travellers, termed also by them ‘‘ common red-deer 
with a long tail,’ to which the name of macrourus would have been appropriate, 
but which does not apply to this, which is said to have “a tail of the same length 
with that of the common deer.”’ 
Lewis and Clark’s account of the variety or species is as follows. “ The black- 
tailed fallow deer are peculiar to this coast (mouth of the Columbia), and are a 
distinct species, partaking equally of the qualities of the mule and the common 
deer. Their ears are longer than those of the common deer (C. virginianus 
or leucurus). ‘The receptacle of the eye more conspicuous, their legs shorter, 
their bodies thicker and larger. The tail is of the same length with that of 
the common deer, the hair on the under side white, and on its sides and 
top of a deep jetty black; the hams resembling in form and colour those of the 
mule deer, which it likewise resembles in its gait. The black-tailed deer never 
tuns at full speed, but bounds with every foot from the ground at the same time, 
~ jike the mule-deer. He sometimes inhabits the woodlands, but more often the 
prairies and open grounds. It may be generally said that he is of a size larger 
than the common deer, and less than the mule deer. The flesh is seldom fat, and 
in flavour is far inferior to any other of the species.” 
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