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Deer (Penti. Syn. 54. t. 9. F. 3, and Quad. i. 20), Cervus Mexicanm (Gmelin, S. N,i. 179 ; H. Smith, G. k. K. 
V. 729, iv. 130. t. ; Ciivier, Oss. Foss. iv. t. 5. f. 23), Cerms ramosicornis (Blainville), are all described from 
horns, which only appear to be much-developed horns of this species which have belonged to some well-fed 
animals. 
The horns described and figured as C. clamtus (H. Smith, G. A, K. iv. 132. t. ), appear to be 
only varieties of the common form. 
1. The Cerms Memcanus (Lichten. Darst. t. 20 ; Sundeval, Pecora, 59), 
2. The Cerms nemoralis (H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 157. t. ; Sundeval, Pecora, 59), 
3. The Cerms gymnotis (Wiegmann, Isis, 1833; Sundeval, Pecora, 59), 
all from Mexico, appear to be varieties of this species. C. Mexicanus is said to have a brown tail and 
indistinct chin-band. The nakedness of the ears, which is peculiar to C gymnotis, is often to be observed 
in these animals when in change of fur. 
Lord Derby writes : — 
" I am glad to say, one of the Texian Does has produced a pair of horns. The young, I hear, are very 
beautifully marked. My other Texian Doe is also pregnant." — May 24, 1844. 
" We have lost the male Texian Deer, and have now only one female. It was quite well, and jumping 
about the old aviary yard yesterday, and was found this morning with its thigh broke and the foot of the 
other leg dislocated, but no wound whatever beside to cause its death. He was one of the twins bred 
here about nine months back." 
The Black-tailed Deer. Cariacus LewisiL Tab. XLIV., summer; XLV., winter fur. 
The tail black above towards the extremity, yellowish Avhite beneath, covered with hair at all seasons, 
not carried erect when running; fulvous (in summer); hair very soft, not ringed; forehead 
and upper part of face before the eyes blackish ; inside of the legs and belly white ; chin-band 
distinct, black ; front hoofs narrow, elongate. Horns like C. Virginiams, but generally more 
slender, and commonly without the first antler. 
Blach-tailed Deer, Anglo-American in Oregon. — BlacJc-tailed Falloio Deer, Lewis and Clerk, Travels to the 
Pacific, ii. 26, 125 (London edit. 1807). — Cervus macrotis /8. Colomhiana, Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer. i. 
257. — Long-tailed Deer (^Cervus macrourus^, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 134, v. 795, part. — Fischer, Syn. 615. 
— Cervus Lewisii, J. Peale, U. S. Explor. Exped. 39. t. 9, ined. fig. at p. 43, fore-foot. 
Inhabits N. W. Coast of N. America. 
Lord Derby observes, — " The Black-tailed Doe was also enceinte when she died." — May 24, 1844. 
The Californian Roe. Cariacus punctulatus. 
Dark reddish brown (in summer), minutely punctulated by the yellow tips of the hair ; chin-mark 
distinct ; ears elongated, nakedish ; base of the ears, orbits, round the muzzle, under side of tail, 
and the upper part of the inside of the leg, white ; forehead, line down the face, and narrow streak 
on upper part of the nape black ; legs brown ; a very narrow, indistinct streak on the middle line 
of the rump yellowish ; tail like back, with a blackish tip. 
Inhabits California. 
There is a female of this species in the Zoological Gardens. It is much smaller than the Black-tailed 
Deer, and darker than C Virginianus, and it differs in the hair being dark, with a distinct yellovs^ sub- 
terminal band. 
** Others have the front hoof broad cordate ; tail not hairy beneath. 
The Mule Deer. Cariacus macrotis. 
Brownish fulvous ; chin without any or only an indistinct band ; tail pale ferruginous, with a black 
tuft at the end, and without any hair beneath ; ears very large ; hoofs of the fore-feet broad cor- 
date, nearly as broad as long, flattened and concave beneath ; horns larger and more spreading 
than in C. Virginiams. 
Mule Deer, Anglo-Americans of the Rocky Mountains.—? Mule or Blach-tailed Deer, Le Raye.— Lewis and 
Clerk, Travels.— Wied, Voy. Amer. Merid. iii. 273, and Vig. A, B.— Cervus macrotis, Say, Long, Exped. 
Rocky Mount, ii. 88.— H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 794.— Fischer, Syn. 444, 615.— Sundeval, Pecora, 59.— 
Richardson, Faun. Bor. Amer. 254. t. 20.— Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped. 41. t. 10 (ined.), fig. at p. 43, fore- 
feet. — C. auritus, Desm. Diet. Class. H. N. iii. 379. 
Inhabits N. W. America ; Arakansa. 
