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Dorcelaphus macrurus, Gloger, Handbuch Naturgeschichte, p. 140 ( 1 841). 

 Cariacus /eucurus, Lesson, Noitv. Tab/. Hist. Nat. p. 173 (1842) ; Gray, 

 Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mas. p. 230 (1852), Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mas. p. 83 



(1872) , Hand-list Ruminants Brit. Mas. p. 155 (1873) ; Brooke, Proc. Zoo/. 

 Soc. 1 878, p. 9 1 9. 



Cervus [Mazama) /eucurus, Sundevall, K. Svcnska Vet. Ak. Hand/, for 

 1 844, p. 1 8 1 (1 846). 



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



(1873) , lxxviii. part i. p. 323 (1879). 



Dorcelaphus virginianus macrourus, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. vol. vii. p. 257 

 (1895). 



Dorcelaphus macrourus, Mearns, Proc. Soc. Washington, vol. xii. p. 26 

 (1898). 



Characters. — Very similar to the last, but of slightly smaller size, 

 rather paler colour, and no black on the face and tail. Antlers rather 

 small and much bowed. General colour of summer pelage on upper-parts 

 and outer side or limbs reddish brown, in winter bright grayish fawn with 

 black specklings ; tail fawn-colour, passing into rusty brown, above, pure 

 white beneath and at the tip 1 ; tarsal gland yellowish brown. 



W hatever may be the case with some of the under-mentioned forms, 

 there can be no doubt as to the present one being merely a local race of 

 M. amer/cana, with the type form of which it probably intergrades. Mr. 

 Caton, who includes both /eucurus (macrurus) and mexicana under the 

 heading of americana, observes that " in their northern range and in the 

 mountainous regions of the west, the white portions cover a larger surface 

 of the body than in other regions, where (in the west ) they have been 

 ranked by many naturalists as a distinct species under the name of Cariacus 

 /eucurus. By hunters these have been called the long-tailed, or white-tailed 

 deer, the latter name having been used by Lewis and Clark, but in truth 

 their tails are no longer than in those found in other regions. From the 

 larger extent of white frequently, if not generally, found on them, we might 

 possibly be justified in assigning them the distinction of a variety, though 

 tin peculiarity is by no means universal, for many individuals cannot be 



1 In Gray's Catalogue of Ruminants (1872) the tail of the Virginian race is stated to be white all 

 round, with the tip brown above, and that of" the present race reddish above ; but this is not altogether 

 correct. 



