i ~o American Deer 



Dorcehphus hemtonus, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. vol. vii. p. 257 (1895). 



Characters. — Build heavier and coarser than in the common American 

 deer. Size somewhat larger than the Virginian race of the latter, the 

 height at the shoulder reaching to 3 feet 3 or 4 inches. Antlers with a 

 very short sub-basal snag, beyond which the beam is directed outwards for 

 a short distance and then curves upwards to form a regularly dichotomous 



Fig. 71.— Front view of Head of Mule-Dccr. From a specimen in the possession of Mr. E. S. Cameron. 



fork, of which both prongs are normally nearly equal, and again divide, the 

 normal number of points thus being five on each side. Ears very large and 

 thickly haired ; tail moderately long, terminating in a brush-like tuft of hair, 

 naked on the under surface at the base ; muzzle rather short ; face-gland 

 rather large. Metatarsal gland and tuft long and straight, occupying the 

 whole of one side of the upper half of the outer surface of the cannon-bone, 

 its hair nearly the same cinnamon tint as that of the leg, as is likewise that 



