BARBOUR AND ALLEN — WHITE-TAILED DEER 
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had kept hidden regardless of my presence, smoking, and conversation. There 
is no question but that Florida deer winter in the ‘‘short blue” and never put 
on the “long blue” coat assumed by deer that winter in the snow. 
Weight. — Cory (1896) says that a full-grown Florida deer “will often not 
weigh over 110 pounds” although he has killed them considerably larger. A 
writer in Forest and Stream (vol. 70, p. 245, 1908) reports one killed at Kissimmee, 
and thought to be unusually big, that weighed 135 lbs. without the entrails. 
Most of the Florida deer which Barbour has seen or heard of, killed about Hallan- 
dale, Miami or Homestead were rarely more than 120 lbs. after being dressed. 
A number of specimens seen in captivity in southeastern Florida were uniformly 
small. 
Measurements. — See table (p. 76). 
Specimens examined . — 
Florida: Monroe County, Chokoloskee, 6 adult cf, 1 9 subadult (skulls) ; 
Polk County, Lake Arbuckle, 9 yg., ? intermediate (skull); Citrus County, 
Citronelle, 4 (including type) and Blitche’s Ferry, 1 (skins and skulls, regarded 
as intermediates closely approaching virginianus) . 
Between the mainland of southeastern Florida and the southern group of keys, 
there is a wide stretch of rather large, elongate islands, including Key Largo and 
the Metacumbe Keys, on which, at least within the memory of those now living, 
deer have never been found. Farther south still, however, in the “Lower Keys,” 
there have been a few deer for a very long period. These were formerly known as 
“Spanish deer” because, apparently, it was recognized that they were unlike the 
deer of the mainland and it was, therefore, assumed that they had been brought 
by the Spaniards from Central America, as the Key West “conchs” well knew that 
dwarf white-tailed deer do occur on the coasts of Honduras and Nicaragua which 
they visit during their turtling expeditions. 
These deer are much pursued and have become extremely wary, but a few are 
killed each year by hunters with dogs. After considerable effort Barbour finally 
succeeded in obtaining an adult male skull with scalp from Big Pine Key and a 
younger male in the second or third year. These, with a third young male shot by 
Mr. W. S. Brooks on the same key, seem unquestionably to represent a very dis- 
tinct race, pale in color, small of body, and with reduced tooth rovrs. It may 
be named: 
Odocoiieus virginianus clavium subsp. nov. 
KEY DEER 
Type. — Adult male head-skin and skull, 19120 M. C. Z. from Big Pine Key, 
Florida, winter 1920 (said in Key West to be the record for size). 
Diagnosis. — Smallest of the eastern races of Virginia deer, colors paler, teeth 
smaller than in the mainland races; upper cheek teeth 67 mm. 
Description. — The type and two other immature males agree in the color of the 
head: in the former the crown and median dorsal line of the neck are “light buff” 
of Ridgway, darkened by the “bister” of the basal portions of the individual 
hairs; on the sides of the neck the bister pales out until on the cheeks and the 
sides and front of the neck, the color is “pale buff.” A spot back of the nose and 
