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is said to have a brown tail and indistinct chin-band. The nakedness 
of the ears, which is peculiar to C. gymnotis , is often to be observed 
in these animals when in change of fur. C. sjrinosus, Gay and Ger- 
vais, is only known from a single horn from Cayenne. 
2. Cariactjs Lewisii. The Black-tailed Deer. 
The tail black above towards the extremity, yellowish white beneath, 
covered with hair at all seasons, not carried erect when running; ful¬ 
vous (in summer); hair very soft, not ringed ; forehead and upper 
part of face before the eyes blackish; inside of the legs and belly 
white; chin-band distinct, black; front hoofs narrow, elongate. Horns 
like C. Virginianus, but generally more slender, and commonly with¬ 
out the first antler. 
Black-tailed Deer , Anglo-American hi Oregon.— Black-tailed 
Fallow Deer, Lewis and Clerk, Travels to the Pacific, ii. 26, 125 
(London edit. 1807). —Cervus macrotis (3. Colombiana, Richardson, 
Fauna Bor. Amer. i. 257-— Long-tailed Deer (Cervus macrourus ), 
H. Smith, G.A.K. iv. 134, v. 795, part; Fischer, Syn. 615. —Cervus 
Lewisii, J. Peale, U. S. Explor. Exped. 39. t. 9, ined. fig. at p. 43, 
fore-foot; Gray, Knows. Menag. 67. t. 44, in summer, t.45, in win¬ 
ter fur. 
Inhabits N."W. Coast of N. America. 
3. Cariactjs ptjnctulatus. The Californian Roe. 
(Mammalia, PI. XXVIII.) 
Dark reddish brown (in summer), minutely punctulated by the 
yellow tips of the hair ; chin-mark distinct; ears elongated, nakedish ; 
base of the ears, orbits, round the muzzle, under side of tail, and the 
upper part of the inside of the leg, white ; forehead, line down the 
face, and narrow streak on upper part of the nape black ; legs brown ; 
a very narrow, indistinct streak on the middle line of the rump yel¬ 
lowish ; tail like back, with a blackish tip. 
Inhabits California. 
There is a female of this species in the Zoological Gardens. It is 
much smaller than the Black-tailed Deer, and darker than C. Virgini¬ 
anus, and it differs in the hair being dark, with a distinct yellow sub¬ 
terminal band. 
** The front hoof broad cordate ; tail not hairy beneath . 
4. Cariactjs macrotis. The Mule Deer. 
Brownish fulvous ; chin without any or only an indistinct band ; 
tail pale ferruginous, with a black tuft at the end, and without any 
hair beneath ; ears very large ; hoofs of the fore-feet broad cordate, 
nearly as broad as long, flattened and concave beneath ; horns larger 
and more spreading than in C. Virginianus. 
Mule Deer, Anglo-Americans of the Rocky Mountains.— lMule or 
Black-tailed Deer, Le Rave ; Lewis and Clerk, Travels ; Wied, Voy. 
Amer. Merid. iib 273, and Yig. A, B.— Cervus macrotis, Say, Long, 
Exped. Rocky Mount, ii. 88 ; H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 794; Fischer, 
