1915.| Allen, American Deer of the Genus Mazama. 541 
thick pelage. From their wide geographical separation and the similarity 
of their environment it would seem probable that their close resemblance is a 
case of parallelism in development. 
Thomas’s measurements of a skull (adult female): “Greatest length 
159mm.; basal length 148; greatest breadth 70; nasals 43.5 & 22.5; height 
of orbit 25: muzzle to front of p? 45; combined length of three upper pre- 
molars 23.5, of whole toothrow 51.” 
Mazama sartorii sartorii Saussure. 
?? Cervus temama KERR, Anim. Kingdom, 1792, No. 662 = Tema-magame Her- 
nandes. 
?? Mazama temama ALLEN, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., VII, p. 191, June 20, 1895 
= Cervus tamama Kerr. 
?? Mazama tema RAFINESQUE, Amer. Monthly Mag., II, p. 44, November, 1817 = 
Temamazame Hernandez.— Tuomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), I, p. 349, foot- 
note, April, 1898. 
Cervus sartorit SAuUSSURE, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. (2), XII, p. 252, June, 1860. 
Based on a skull from Mirador, Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
Type locality, Mirador, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
An adult female skull from Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico (U.S. Nat. Mus. 
No. 100418) gives the following measurements: Total length, 174 mm.; 
condylobasal length, 160; occipitonasal length, 150; preorbital length, 
83.5; zygomatic breadth, 80; orbital breadth, 77; interorbital breadth, 
47.5; occipital breadth, 53.7; breadth of braincase, 56; nasals, 48 < 19; 
maxillary toothrow, 51.5; m*%, 29.5. Ratio of pie wads length to condy- 
lobasal length, 52.2. 
This skull, the only material available of this species, indicates that the 
size of the Mexican red brocket is below the medium size for the genus, 
and somewhat less than in the Central American forms of the sartorz group. 
There is no reason to question the applicability of the name Cervus 
sartoriz Saussure to the red brocket of Mexico. On the other hand the 
applicability of Rafinesque’s name Mazama tema, and of Kerr's earlier 
Cervus temama, to this species is not at all evident. Hernandez’s description 
and figure scarcely indicate a red brocket, being much more likely to have 
been based on a young Odocoileus with spike horns, as long ago stated by 
Lichtenstein. Hernandez’s entire description, aside from generalities, 
is as follows: “Deinde in quondam Damarum genere quas Macatlchichiltic, 
aut Temamacame, appellant, brevissimis cornibus, aa coloris 
fulvi, fig & inferne albi, oe quoque prestita est imago.’ 
1 Hernandez, F. Nova Plantarum, Animalium et Mineralium axle hime: 1651, p. 
325, with figure in text. : 
