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Show 1878.] CLASSIFICATION OF T H E CERVIDAE. 919 hair on the inner surface of the limb at the tarsal joint. as in Cervus. Tail long. Stature medium. Young spotted. Distribution. Nearctic and northern portions of the Neotropical region. (a) Antlers non-dichotomous. Lacrymal of moderate depth. 1. CARIACUS VIRGINIANUS. 1774. Cervus virginianus, Bodd. Elench. An. vol. i. p. 136 (non vidi). 1788. , Gm. L. Syst. Nat. p. 179. 1857. , Baird, N.-Amer. Mamm. p. 643, figs. 12, 13. Range. From Maine all over the United States east of the Missouri (Baird). 2. CARIACUS LEUCURUS. 1829. Cervus leucurus, Dougl. Zool. Journ. vol. iv. p. 330. 1857. , Baird, N.-Amer. Mamm. p. 649, figs. 14-18. 1873. , Walsingham, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 561. Bange. N. California, Oregon principally east of the Cascade Mountains (Walsingham), Washington, Dakota west of the Missouri, Nebraska (Baird). 3. CARIACUS MEXICANUS. 1827-1834. Cervus mexicanus, Licht. Darst. d. Thiere, Taf. 18. 1827. Cervus nemoralis, Ham. Sm., Griff. An. Kingd. vol. iv. p. 137, plate. 1857. , Baird, N.-Amer. Mamm. 653. Bange. Texas, Mexico, Sonora (Baird) ; Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua (Salvin); Costa Rica (Saussure) ; Panama (Salvin). Lichtenstein's types, <f et $ Mus. Berlin. The name Cervus mexicanus was originally given by Gmelin (Syst. Nat. p. 179) to the Mexican deer of Pennant, described in his 'Quadrupeds,' p. 110. The description and dimensions given by Pennant are reconcilable with the Cervus mexicanus of Lichtenstein ; but the antlers figured by him (plate xi. figure 3) are certainly not referable to the same form. They appear rather to represent abnormal antlers of Cariacus macrotis. The specimens described by Lichtenstein were obtained by Graf von Sack in Mexico, and are in all particulars thoroughly tv pical of the Deer inhabiting the localities I have given in the range of this species. I give the dimensions of a female specimen collected by Mr. Salvin in Guatemala, and of the antlers of a male collected by the same gentleman in the same locality. The latter resemble in every particular antlers collected by Mr. Salvin in Nicaragua and Panama. There are not more than six points, inclusive of the brow-antler, ou both antlers in any of the specimens collected between Guatemala and Panama ; but I have seen specimens from Mexico and Texas with eight and ten tines; and one splendid specimen collected by Mr. Dresser near Friedrichsburg in Texas has as many as fifteen. 60* |
