THE LOUISIANA DEER. 
GLOVER M. ALLEN. 
Ir has long been known, in a general way, that the deer 
inhabiting the lowlands of Louisiana is distinctly different 
from the related races to the north and east. As long ago 
as 1820, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier! figured a doe 
in summer pelage under the name of “Biche du Cerf de la 
Louisiane.” They did not, however, consider it different from 
their “Cervus virginianus” (= Odocelus virginianus virginianus 
Bodd. 
Through the kindness of the museum authorities, I have 
been enabled to examine the series of deer skins and skulls in 
the Museum of Comparative Zoólogy. In the Bangs collection 
are four skins and skulls of deer from Mer Rouge, Louisiana. 
These represent a well-marked race, which may be known as 
Odocelus virginianus louisianz, subsp. nov. 
Type: No. 9111, collection of E. A. and O. Bangs, in Museum 
of Comparative Zoólogy. Adult male, from Mer Rouge, 
Morehouse County, Louisiana. Collected Nov. 8, 1898, by 
B. V. Lilly. 
General characters : Size large; color, in winter, pale; skull 
long and slender; lower row of molar teeth long; antlers 
heavy and high. 
Color of type —body : dorsal surface from between the eyes 
to the root of the tail a grizzled cream-buff and brownish-black ; 
1 Histoire Naturelle des egeta: etc., tome i, livr. xvii, , Paris, 1 1824. 
UR pointed out by Dr. . Allen in the American Naturalist, vol. xxxiv. 
* 400, p. 318 (April, 1900), galas did not propose the name americanus 
i the Virginia deer in his sentence, * Differtne vere americanus uti Pennanto 
rxle 
American form, giving a description and synonymy without himself passing 
judgment on its validity as a distinct species. 
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