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CERVUS MACROTIS.— Say. 
Mule Deer. 
PLATE LXXVIII. Female — Summer Pelage. 
C. cornibus sub-dichotomo-ramosis ; auriculis longissimis ; corpore 
supra pallide rufescente-fusco, cauda pallide rufescente cinerea, apice 
compresso subtus nudi-osculo nigro. 
CHARACTERS. 
Horns cylindrical, twice forked ; ears very long ; body above, brownish 
grey ; tail short, above, pale reddish ash colour, except at the extremity on its 
upper surface, where it is black. Hair on the body coarse, like that of the 
Elk ; very long glandular openings on the sides of hind legs. 
SYNONYMES. 
JuMPiKG- Deer. Umfreville, Hudson’s Bay, p. 164. 
Black Tailed or Mule Deer. Gass Journ. p. 55. 
Black Tailed Deer, Mule Deeb. Lewis and Clarke. Vol. 1, pp. 91, 92, 106, 
152, 239, 264, 328. Vol. 2. p. 152. Vol. 3. p. 27, 125. 
Mule Deer. Warden’s United States. Vol. 1, p. 245. 
Cere Mulet. Desmarcst Mam., p. 43. 
Black Tailed or Mule Deer. James Long’s Exped. Vol. 2, p. 276. 
Cebvus Macrotis, Say. Long’s Expedit. Vol. 2, p. 254. 
“ “ Harlan Eauna, p. 243. 
“ “ Sabine. Franklin’s Journey, p. 667. 
“ “ Godman’s Nat. Hist. Vol. 2, p. 305. 
Great Eared Deer. Griffith’s An. King. Vol. 4, p, l33 ; Vol. 5. p. 794. 
DESCRIPTION. 
In size this species is intermediate between the Elk and the Virginian 
Deer, and a little larger than the Columbian Black Tailed Deer, to be 
noticed hereafter. It is a fine formed animal, bearing a considerable re- 
semblance to the Elk, its long ears constitute its only apparent defor- 
mity. 
Male. — Antlers slightly grooved, tuberculated at base, a small branch 
near the base, corresponding to the situation and direction of those of the C. 
Virginianus. The curvature of the anterior line of the antlers, is similar in 
