No. 414.] THE LOUISIANA DEER. 451 
hairs near the base ; in No. 9112, as compared with the type 
specimen, the tail is more rufous, with a short black tip. 
I have not seen specimens of this deer in the summer pelage, 
but the doe in summer coat figured by Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier 
is bright reddish, and as the nearest races to the east and west 
are brighter in summer than in winter, a seasonal change of 
similar nature may be looked for in the Louisiana deer. 
The skull: The skull of the Louisiana deer is long and 
slender. The nasals are long and narrow; the zygomatic and 
d: 
Fic. 1. — Skull of Og ca 
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gini 5 lis (Miller), ĝ , type No. 4999, Coll. E. A, and 
O. Bangs, Mus. Comp. Zoól. 
the palatal breadths are narrow, being much less than those of 
the northern Virginia deer (Odocelus virginianus borealis). 
In the type of O. Jeuzsiame the distal end of the nasal bone 
touches the proximal end of the premaxillary, and the same is 
true in the skull of No. 8623, 4, topotype. In this respect 
there is a resemblance to Odoca/us virginianus osceola (Bangs)! 
and Odocelus texanus (Mearns)? However, in No. 9112, $, topo- 
type, an upward projection of the maxillary separates these two 
1 Cariacus osceola Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. x (February, 1896), pp- 25-28. 
* Dorcelaphus texanus Mearns, tbid., vol. xii (Jan. 27, 1898), pp- 23-26. 
