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land, Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and even further south. On 
the Upper Missouri, and west, the Virginia Deer is replaced by an allied 
race, the White-tailed Deer, Cariacus virgintanus macrurus (Raf.) Coues. 
More northern specimens of the Virginia Deer are larger than those 
further south ; the Deer of the southern seacoast and its islunds are smaller 
than those of the uplands and mountains of the same latitude. 
The Virginia Deer is rarely met with in Ohio at present, except as 
domesticated in parks, 
‘Description of this well-known animal seems unnecessary here, especi- 
ally since the publication of Judge Caton’s treatise on the Antelope and 
Deer of America. 
Genus Cervus Linneus. 
Generic characters as given in the Key to Genera. 
CERVUS CANADENSIS Hrxleben. 
WAPITI; OR AMERICAN ELK. 
1756. Cervus canadensis, Briss., Quad., 1756, 88. 
1777. Cervus elaphus, var. canadensis, Hrx)., Syst., 1777, 305.—Bodd., Hlench. 
Anim., 1784, 135. ) 
1809. Cervus wapiti, Barton, Am. Philos. Trans., vi, 1809, 70. 
1815. Cervus major, Ord, Guthrie’s Geog., 2d Am. ed., 1815. 
1827. Cervus (Hlaphus) canadensis, Griff, Am. King., v. 1827, 308. 
1835. Cervus canadensis, Schreb., Saugt., v, 1835, 990, pl. 246, A—Desmar., 
Mamm., ii, 182, 483.—Harlan, Pn. Amer.. 1825, 236.—Godman, 
Am. Nat. Hist., 11, 1831, 294.—Maxim.. Reise, ii, 1839, 24, 84.— 
Gray, P. Z. S., 1850, 226.—Giebel., Saugt., 1855, 348.—Baird, 
Mamm., N. A., 1857, 388, f. 9 and 10. 
1836. Cervus strongyloceras, Schreb., Saug., v, 1836, pl. 247, F, G.—Rich., 
Wn. Bor. Am., i, 1829, 251. 
1842. Hlaphus canadensis, De Kay, N. Y. Zodél., i, 1842, 118, pl. 18, f. 2.— 
Aud. & Bach., Q. N. A., it, 1851, 84, pl. 62.—Baird, Agric. Rep. 
U.S. Pat. Office, 1851-2, 116. 
Specific OCharacters—Hoofs short, broad and rounded. Tail short and 
depressed. Larmiers nearly as long as eye; naked portion of the muz- 
zie inferiorly only half as wide as the septum of the nostrils. No naked | 
glandular space on the outer edge of the hind-legs, but a short, whitish 
patch of hairs near the upper part of the metatarsus. 
In summer, ground color light chesnut-red, darkest on the neck and 
legs; throat and median ventral line dusky, almost black. Chin dusky, 
with a narrow patch of light-yellowish on either side; a broad, median, 
