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distinguished from those found in Illinois or Wisconsin. I have one 

 specimen from North-Western Minnesota with all the legs entirely white to 

 several inches above the hocks and knees, with occasionally a tawny hair 

 interspersed among the white. The white on the belly, too, extends 

 further up the sides than is usually observed. This is exceptional, though 

 not very uncommon in the north-west, but I have never seen it in their 

 middle or southern range. I have never found any black on the tails or 

 faces of the northern variety, while it is very common in more southern 

 and eastern varieties." 



The name long-tailed deer was doubtless applied to this race in contra- 

 distinction from other species, and not as distinctive from the eastern race. 

 This has, however, misled Fitzinger, who speaks of the present race as 

 differing from the eastern race by the greater length of the tail. 



Distribution. — Western United States, including North California, 

 Oregon principally east of the Cascade Mountains, Washington, Dakota 

 west of the Missouri, and Nebraska. 



c. Florida Race — Mazama Americana osceola 



Gariacus osceola, Bangs, Proc. Soc. Washington, vol. x. p. 26 (1896). 



Dorcelaphus osceola, Mearns, ibid. vol. xii. p. 25 (1898). 



Characters. — Scarcely more than half the size of the common M. 

 americana typica, of the Eastern United States, with the pelage darker at all 

 seasons, and differing less in summer and winter. There is a difference 

 in the form of the maxilla? and nasals, and the cheek-teeth are larger. 

 Mr. Bangs characterises this form as follows : — " Size small ; general 

 colour dark ; hair short and fine at all seasons. Upper parts of back, neck, 

 and head a mixed dark and light brown, each hair banded, dark brown at 

 the tip, then yellowish brown, then dark brown, and Isabella colour at the 

 base. The dark brown colour predominates in a narrow median band along 

 the back, and is most intense on the neck and between the ears. On the 

 flanks and along the sides the hairs are not banded, but are Isabella colour 

 at base and cinnamon at tips ; sides and under surface of neck cinnamon ; 

 throat, belly, inside of legs white ; ears sparsely haired ; upper surface dark 

 brown, many of the hairs tipped with yellow ; inside surface white ; the 



