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CERVUS LEUCURUS.— Douglas. 
Long-tailed Deer. 
PLATE CXVIII.— Male. 
C. Cervo Virginiano minor, capite atque dorso fulvis nigro mistis, inalis 
lateribusque dilutioribus, gastrmo albo. 
CHARACTERS. 
Smaller than the Virginian deer; head and hack, fawn-colour, mixed with 
black ; sides and cheeks, paler, white beneath. 
SYNONYMES. 
Roebuck. Dobbs, Hudson’s Bay, p. 41, Ann. 1744. 
Fallow, or Virginian Deer. Cook’s Third Voyage, vol. ii. p. 292, Ann. 1778. 
Long-tailed Jumping Deer. Umfreville, Hudson’s Bay, p. 190, Ann. 1790. 
Deer with Small Horns and Long tail ( ?) Gass, Journal, p. 55, Ann. 1808. 
Long-tailed (?) Red Deer. Lewis and Clark, vol. ii. p. 41. 
Small Deer of the Pacific. Idem, vol. ii. p. 342. 
Jumping Deer. Hudson’s Bay traders. 
Ciievreuil. Canadian Voyagers. 
Mowitch. Indians west of the Rocky Mountains. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Form, elegant ; lachrymal opening, apparently only a small fold in the 
skin close to the eye ; limbs, slender ; hoofs, small and pointed ; tail, long 
in proportion to the size of the animal. Fur, dense and long ; a pendulous 
tuft of hairs on the belly between the thighs ; the glandular opening on 
the outside of the hind leg, small and oval in shape, the reversed hairs 
around it differing very little in colour from the rest of the leg. Hair, 
coarser than in the Virginian deer, and hoofs more delicate in shape. 
COLOUR. 
Head and back, rufous, mixed with black ; sides and cheeks, paler ; ears, 
above, dusky brown, inside edges, white ; there is a small black spot 
between the nostrils, and q white ring around the eyes. Chin and throat, 
