California mammals . docoileus hemionus eremicus Mearns. (Hermic, i. c,a dweller in the desert.) BURRO DEER. Similar to hemionus; larger; paler; in winter gray, darkest on the back, palest on the sides: breast sooty<drab; sometimes the dark area from the rump extends a shortrdistance down on the tail, but more often it is as indicated in the? drawing, which was made from a recently killed buck, near on the Colorado Desert, December loth. This was aimedium sized buck and measurements were as follows: totallength 1680 mm. (66 inches) ; tail vertebrae 190 () ;
California mammals . docoileus hemionus eremicus Mearns. (Hermic, i. c,a dweller in the desert.) BURRO DEER. Similar to hemionus; larger; paler; in winter gray, darkest on the back, palest on the sides: breast sooty<drab; sometimes the dark area from the rump extends a shortrdistance down on the tail, but more often it is as indicated in the? drawing, which was made from a recently killed buck, near on the Colorado Desert, December loth. This was aimedium sized buck and measurements were as follows: totallength 1680 mm. (66 inches) ; tail vertebrae 190 () ; hind-foot 491 (); ear from crown 250 (); girth of bodybehind fore leg 1050 (). I estimated his weight 150pounds but others of the party thought he was heavier. A femaleIcilled a few days previously in the same locality measured, total CERVID^ 51 length 1430 (); tail vertebrEe 180 (); hind foot 430(17); ear from crown 218 () ; girth 390 (35).Type locality, northwestern Sonora, Tail ot Burro Deer. Burro Deer are seldom seei; in the moimtains, but are foundalong their base, and in comparatively level land, even in themesquit timber of the Colorado Valley, where they feed on wil-low twigs along the sloughs. I saw also where these Deer hadeaten the wild gourds (mock oranges). They are not foundmany miles from water, as in warm weather they visit ponds orstreams nightly to drink, and in cooler weather every secondor third night. They are found in small parties, sometimessingly, a dozen being a large band as far as my observations antlers are commonly very regularly double-forked. Odocoileus hemionus californicus Cavon. » CALIFORNIA MULE DEER. Similar to hemionus; considerably smaller; color moretawny; tail rather longer proportionally and usually with a dis-tinct brownish or blackish stripe on the upper side from the rumpto the black terminal switch, which often has a light brown or 52 CALIFORNIA MAMMALS. whitish stripe underneath. The
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