450 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VoL. XXXV. 
each hair has a fine black tip, below which it enlarges slightly 
in diameter and presents a zone of cream-buff, then one of 
brownish-black, which shades into whitish near the root. Pass- 
ing ventrally from the back to the sides, this whitish base grad- 
ually becomes more extensive, to the final exclusion of the 
brownish-black zone, so that the sides of the belly are a nearly 
uniform cream-buff to ochraceous-buff. On the lower part of 
the shoulders the color of the back shades into a grizzled grayish. 
The tail above is nearly unicolor with the back and has a few 
pale rufous hairs at its base ; the terminal third is nearly uni- 
form black. The ventral surfaces of the body and tail are 
white. The chest is ochraceous-buff, with a slight intermix- 
ture of long brownish-black hairs between the forelegs. 
Head and neck: A small area behind and between the 
nostrils and a semicircular patch ventrally on each side of the 
angle of the jaw, brownish-black. Chin, upper throat, eye-ring, 
and sides of the muzzle whitish; a few black bristles about the 
eyes. The rest of the sides of the head are a finely grizzled 
white and brownish-black, passing into the white of the chin 
and the bright cream-buff of the throat. The ears on their 
outer surfaces are similar in color to the top of the head and 
have the edges of the tips brownish-black ; their inner surface 
is lined with long, delicate white hairs. 
Limbs: The inner surfaces of the axilla and thighs are 
white ; the color of the outer surfaces passes from the color of 
the sides of the body proximally, to an ochraceous-buff distally. 
A line of white hairs is present between the toes. The meta- 
tarsal gland is small, 14 mm. in length, and is surrounded by 
stiff, short white hairs, forming a tuft which has a concealed 
outer border of brownish-black. The hoofs and dew-claws are 
as long as in the type of Odocelus virginianus borealis (Miller), 
but slightly narrower. 
The three other topotypes (Nos. 9112, 8622, 8623, Bangs 
collection) agree closely with the type in coloration, but 
No. 8623 has a darker median dorsal line, and the upper 
surface of the tail is uniformly black save for a few rufous 
1 Odocelus americanus borealis Miller, Bull. N. V. State Mus., vol. viii, No. 38 
(October, 1900), p. 83. 
