RUM IN ANTI A—CERVINAE-CERVUS COLUMBIANUS. 
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List of specimens. 
Catalogue number. 
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Locality. 
When collected. 
Whence and how 
obtained. 
Original number. 
Nature of 
specimen. 
Measurements. 
Collected by— 
Nose to occip. 
Nose to tail. 
Tail to end of vert. 
Tail to end of hairs. 
1840 
2881 
£ 
Upper Missouri .. 
Summer, 1856 
Lt. Warren... 
B 
Skin ...... 
70.00 
8 00 
12.00 
Dr. F. V. Hayden. 
1841 
2882 
£ 
.o.. .do............ 
A 
1852 
0 
Yellowstone...., 
August, 1856 
1501 
2361 
S 
Sage Creek, Nebraska 
Winter, 1855 
Dr. F. V. Hayden 
1502 
2362 
o 
1505 
2365 
V 
o 
\m 
2581 
8 
W. fork Medicine Bow Creek 
Sept. 2, 1856 
Lt. F. T. Bryan .... 
316 
...do. 
15.00 
69.50 
8 00 
11.00 
W. S. Wood..... 
1884 
2582 
o 
317 
.. .do....... 
11.00 
57.00 
6.50 
10.00 
1200 
2028 
V 
o 
Head of Des Chutes river. 
September,1855 
Lt. Williamson..... 
Head & feet 
Dr. J.S. Newberry 
V 
O. T. 
Note _The measurements recorded above were taken before skinning. 
CERVUS COLUMBIANUS, Rich. 
Black-tailed Deer. 
Cervus macrotis, var. columbianus, Richardson, F. B. Am. I, 1829, 255 ; pi. xx. 
Cervus macrotis, Rich. F. Bor. Am. I, 1829, 254; pi. xx. 
Sundevall, K. Sv. Vetenskaps Akad. Handlingar, 1844 .—Ib. Archiv Bkand. Beit. II, 1850, 
135. (From Richardson.) 
Cervus lewisii, Peale, Mammalia and Birds U. S. Ex. Ex. 1848, 39. 
- ? Cervus ( Cariacus ) lewisii, J. E. Gray, Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond. XVIII, 1850, 239 .—Ib. Knowsley Menagerie, 1850, 67 
pi. xliv, summer; pi. xlv, winter. 
Cervus richardsonii, Add. & Bach. N. Am. Quad. II, 1851, 211 .—Ib. Ill, 1853, 27 ; pi. cvi. 
Wagner, Suppl. Schreb. V, 1855, 369. „ 
? Cervus ( Cariacus) punctulalus, Gray, Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond. XVIII, 1850, 239 ; pi. xxviii.—I b. Knowsley Menag. 
1850, 67. 
Black-tailed fallow deer, Lewis & Clark. 
Sp. Ch.—A bout the size of C. virginianus, or less. Horns doubly dichotomous, the forks nearly equal. Ears more than 
half the length of the tail. Gland of the hind leg about one-sixth of the distance between the articulating surfaces of the 
bone. Tail cylindrical, hairy and white beneath ; almost entirely black above. The under portion of the tip not black. 
Winter coat with distinct yellowish chestnut annulation on a dark ground. Without white patch on the buttocks. There 
is a distinct dusky horse-shoe mark on the forehead anterior to the eyes. 
The differences between this and the Virginia deer are very strongly marked and readily 
appreciable. It is with the Cervus macrotis of Say that its closest affinities exist, and to distinguish 
The horns had four tips on each antler, arranged somewhat as in C. elaphus, except that the frontal tines are short and 
small, placed mqre internally, and tending outwards; then follows a very long tine curving upwards, (this in older deer 
divides); above this is a fork. 
Measurements. —From snout to tip of tail, 5 feet 9 inches 8 lines ; tail to tip of hairs, (measuring on the upper side,) 10 
inches 8 lines ; tail without the hairs, 6 inches; head, 12 inches '8 lines ; length of ear, measured on the side next to tfce 
head, 8 inches 7 lines ; greatest width of ear, 3 inches 2 lines ; height anteriorly, (feet outstretched,) 2 feet 9 lines ; height 
behind, 4 feet 3 lines. 
In a two year old female the color is the same as that mentioned above, although rather a purer clear yellow. There are 
four inguinal teats ; ears dark gray at the tips. 
