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LONG-TAILED DEER. 
yellowish-white ; tail, brownish-yellow above, inclining to rusty red near 
the tip, and cream white underneath and at the tip ; neck, brownish-yellow 
from the throat downwards ; under surface of the body, not so white as in 
the Virginian deer. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Young male in the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 
Feet. Inches. 
Prom point of nose to root of tail, 
Length of head, 
End of nose to eye, - 
Tail to end of hair, - - - - 
Height of ear posteriorly, - 
Horns (two points about I of an inch long, 
moving the surrounding hair). 
- 4 2 
101 
54 
- 1 14 
5 
invisible without 
Female presented by the Hudson’s Bay Company to the museum of the 
Zoological Society. 
Feet. Inches. 
Length from point of nose to root of tail, - - 5 
“ of head, 11 
“ of tail (including fur), - - - 1 1 
HABITS. 
In its general appearance this Deer greatly resembles the European 
roebuck, and seems to be formed for bounding along in the light and 
graceful manner of that animal. The species has been considered of 
doubtful authenticity, owing to the various lengths of tail exhibited by the 
common deer, many specimens of which we collected near the Rocky 
Mountains, not differing from C. Virginianus in any other particular, 
but with long tails, and for some time we did not feel inclined to give it a 
place in our work ; from which we have excluded a great many false 
species, published by others from young animals or mere varieties, and 
compared by us with specimens exhibiting all the markings and forms set 
down as characters by the authors alluded to. At one time we examined 
the tails of some common deer in Fulton market, New York, and found 
that the longest exceeded nineteen inches, while the average length does 
not go beyond nine. The different form of the light, springy animal 
described by Mr. Douglas will, however, at once separate it from C. Vir- 
ginianus on comparison. 
Sir John Richardson says ; “ This animal, from the general resem- 
