. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . more usually there are but two posteriorbranches. Sometimes the basal snag is much longer than in the figure ; the curvature of thehorn, too, varies a good deal. Sometimes a perfectly adult, full grown male will have but asingle slender spike, thus resembling the buck of the second year. The Virginia deer is the best known, and probably the most abundant of the American to Audubon and Bachman, it is not found north of Main
. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . more usually there are but two posteriorbranches. Sometimes the basal snag is much longer than in the figure ; the curvature of thehorn, too, varies a good deal. Sometimes a perfectly adult, full grown male will have but asingle slender spike, thus resembling the buck of the second year. The Virginia deer is the best known, and probably the most abundant of the American to Audubon and Bachman, it is not found north of Maine, from which limit it isspread over the entire area of the United States east of the Missouri river. Although lesscommon than formerly, it is met with in large numbers in the mountainous portions of New York,Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and States further south, as well as on the seacoast region. 648 V. S. p. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. On the Upper Missouri, and west, it is replaced by an allied species, and it probably does notextend 1o the western borders of Texas. In Mexico and Sonora it is replaced by the Cervus Fig. 13. Cervus virginiamis, No. 3062. Essex county, NewYork. Eight horn from inside. Size, inches to theinch. It is a well ascertained fact that the more northern specimens of this deer are appreciablylarger than those found further south, and that the deer of the southern seacoast and its islandsare smaller than those of the uplands and mountains of the same latitude. This fact is wellestablished by the comparison of specimens in the Smithsonian collection, from New York andfrom St. Simons island. List of specimens. 3 .a! t^ ^ «*.. a p O a ;zi B bo te a, o s t a O o 2357 3Ut 2256 3119 2384 852 1908 853 1909 Locality. 9999 St. Simons island, Ga. Rowleysburg, Va do Saranac lake, N. Y — do When collected, Aug. 5, 1856Febry, 1857Febry, 1856Sept. 7, 1855 do. Whence and howobtained. Natureof specimen. Dr. S. W. Wilson
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