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[77.] 5. Cervus tevcurus. (Douglas.) Long-tailed Deer. 
Roe-buck. Dosss, Hudson's Bay,p.41. An. 1744. 
Fallow or Virginian deer. Coox, Third Voy., vol. ii. p. 292. An. 1778. 
Long-tailed jumping deer. UMFREVILLE, Hudson’s Bay, p. 190. An.1790. 
Deer, with small horns and a long tail. Gass, Jowrn., p.55. An. 1808. 
Long-tailed red deer. Lewts and Crark, vol. ii. p. 41. 
Small deer of the Pacific. I1pEmM, vol. ii. p. 342. 
Common red deer. I1pEM, vol. ili. p. 26. 
Common fallow deer, with long tails. IrpEM, vol. iii. p. 85. 
Apeesee-mongsoos. CrEE INDIANS. Jumping deer. Hupson’s Bay TRADERS. 
Chevreuil. Canapian Voyacers. Mowitch. Inp1ans west of the Rocky MounTains. 
This animal, from the general resemblance it has in size, form, and habits, to 
the Cervus capreclus of Europe, has obtained the name of Chevrewil from the 
French Canadians, and of Roebuck from the Scottish highlanders employed by the 
Hudson’s Bay Company. ‘These names occur in the works of several authors 
who have written on the fur countries, and Umfreville gives a brief, but, as far as 
it goes, a correct description of it. Lewis and Clark allude.to it, as far as I can 
judge from their short notices under the different appellations quoted above, all 
of which indicate that they considered it to be a variety of the Cervus virginianus, 
which is named _ red or fallow-deer in different parts of the United States. The 
specific name of Cervus macrowrus seems to have been intended to designate this 
deer; but the characters authors * have assigned to it appertain to var. 8 of the 
Cervus macrotis, having been compiled from Lewis and Clark’s short account 
of their black-tailed fallow-deer. The black tip of the tail of the Cervus macrotis 
or mule-deer, renders it a more conspicuous object than that of the long-tailed 
deer, and the former is often termed Ainwaithoos or long-tail by the Cree hunters, © 
although the epithet is more appropriate to the latter. I could not, whilst 
residing on the banks of the Saskatchewan, procure a specimen of this animal, as 
has been mentioned in the preceding article, but have lately had an opportunity 
of examining the skin of a female one presented to the Zoological Museum by the 
Hudson’s Bay Company. Mr. David Douglas has given an account of the 
habits of the species in the Zoological Journal, and I have adopted his specific 
name of Jewcwrus, which is preferable to macrourus, because the original descrip- 
tions given under the latter name are not applicable to this species. z 
* WanvEN, United States, vol. i. p. 245, Grir¥FiTu’s An. Kingd., vol. iv. p. 134.5 vol. v. p. 316. No. 25. 
