Common American Deer 



i. The Common American Deer — Mazama Americana 



Cervus dama americana, Erxleben, Syst. Regn. Animalis, p. 312 (1777). 



Cervus virginianus, Boddaert, Elenchus Animalium, p. 136 (1785) ; Baird, 

 Mamm. N America, p. 649 (1857) ; Caton, Antelope and Deer of America, 

 p. 100 (1877). 



Cervus [Mazama) virginianus, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 

 vol. iv. p. 127, v. p. 315 (1827). 



Cervus [Mazama) clavatus, H. Smith, op. cit. iv. p. 132, v. p. 315 (1827). 

 Mazama virginiana, J ardine, Naturalist's Library — Mamm. vol. iii. p. 176 



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Dorcelaplius virginianus, Gloger, Handbuch Naturgeschichte, p. 140 (1841). 



Cariacus virginianus, Lesson, Nouv. Table Hist. Nat. p. 173 (1842) ; Gray, 

 List. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 175 (1843), Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 228 

 (1852), Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 83 (1872), Hand-list Ruminants 

 Brit. Mus. p. 155 (1873) ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 919; Alston, 

 Biol. Centr. Amer. — Mamm. p. 1 1 5 (1 879) ; Merriam, Mammals of the Adiron- 

 dacks, p. 107 (1884) ; Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 55 (1896). 



Cervus clavatus, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet. Ak. Hand I. for 1844, p. 183 

 (1846). 



Cervus capricomis, de Saussure, Rev. Mag. Zool. ser. 2, vol. xii. p. 252 

 (i860). 



Reduncina virginiana, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxviii. part i. p. 357 

 (1873), lxxviii. part i. 313 (1879). 



Cervus [Cariacus) virginianus, Herrick, Mamm. Minnesota, p. 281 (1892). 



Cariacus americanus, Bangs, Proc. Soc. Washington, vol. x. p. 25 (1896). 



Dorcelaplius americanus, Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 208 ; 

 Mearns, Proc. Soc. Washington, vol. xii. p. 23 (1878). 



Characters. — Build light and graceful, both body and limbs being long. 

 Height variable, ranging from about 3 feet 1 inch at the shoulder to 26 

 inches. Antlers with a long sub-basal snag, above the origin of which the 

 beam is abruptly curved forward, and soon after forks dichotomously, the 

 posterior prong of the main fork upright and generally undivided, the 

 anterior, or lower prong again forking, with its lower division also divided ; 

 the whole antler in advance of the sub-basal tine thus having the appear- 

 ance of a horizontal beam with three nearly vertical tines arising from its 



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