Mexican Race 



d. Sonoran Race — Mazama Americana couesi 



Cervus mexicanus, Baird, N. Amer. Mamm. p. 653 (1857), nec Lichten- 

 stein, 1827-34. 



Dorcelaphus couesi, J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. vol. vii. p. 200 (1895). 



Characters. — A very small, pale-coloured form (smaller than the Texan 

 race), with relatively large ears, on the margins and tips of which there is 

 no black ; tail relatively long ; and cheek-teeth small. Antlers small, with 

 short tines. 



Distribution. — Sonora, typically from the Santa Cruz Mountains. 



e. Texan Race — Mazama Americana texana 



Dorcelaphus texanus, Mearns, Proc. Soc. Washington, vol. xii. p. 23 (1898). 



Characters. — Size small ; ears relatively small, with black on the 

 margins and tips ; general colour pale ; pelage fine and long ; limbs 

 relatively short ; and cheek-teeth large. Antlers small and strongly 

 incurved. 



Distribution. — Texas and North Mexico. 



f. Mexican Race — Mazama Americana mexicana 



Cervus mexicanus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 179 (1788) ; Lichtenstein, 

 Darstell. Thiere, plate xviii (1827-34) ; Caton, Antelope and Deer of America, 

 p. 100 (1877), as synonym of virginianus. 



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

 vol. v. p. 315 (1827). 



Mazama mexicana, Jardine, Naturalist's Library — Mamm. vol. iii. p. 175 

 (1835) ; Gray, Knows/ey Menagerie, plate xlvi (1850). 



Cariacus mexicanus, Lesson, Noire. Tabl. Hist. Nat. p. 173 (1842) ; 

 Grav, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 156 (1872), Hand- list Ruminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 156 (1873) ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 919 ; Alston, Biol. 

 Centr. Amer. Mamm. pp. 82, 113 (1879) ; Ward, Records of Big Game, 

 p. 58 (1896). 



