. Mammals of the Mexican boundary of the United States : a descriptive catalogue of the species of mammals occurring in that region; with a general summary of the natural history, and a list of trees . Mammals; Mammals; Trees; Trees; Natural history; Natural history. 192 BULLETIN 56, UNITED STATES NATIONAL I Fig. 21. —Odocoileus HE MI ON us CANUS. Metatarsal gland. (Cat. No. 20570, ) dentition. Its weight, as killed, before evisceration, was 103 pounds ( kilos.). Head and neck yellowish drab-gray, with a horse- shoe mark of brownish black, grizzled posteriorly, occupying
. Mammals of the Mexican boundary of the United States : a descriptive catalogue of the species of mammals occurring in that region; with a general summary of the natural history, and a list of trees . Mammals; Mammals; Trees; Trees; Natural history; Natural history. 192 BULLETIN 56, UNITED STATES NATIONAL I Fig. 21. —Odocoileus HE MI ON us CANUS. Metatarsal gland. (Cat. No. 20570, ) dentition. Its weight, as killed, before evisceration, was 103 pounds ( kilos.). Head and neck yellowish drab-gray, with a horse- shoe mark of brownish black, grizzled posteriorly, occupying the crown; blackish along the anterior margin of the ear, around the eye, and on the end of the muzzle, laterally and superiorly, the latter connected with the horse-shoe mark of the crown by a faint, median, dusky line. Muzzle of a coarser pepper-and-salt mixture of grizzled drab. Region from base of ear to orbit dirty yellowish gray. Inner surface of ear very scantily coated with long, crinkled, grayish-white hairs. The legs are ochra- ceous buff externally, cream-buff internally, with the bushy hair surrounding the metatarsal gland (fig. 21) cream buff. The tail is long and slender, short-haired, bare underneath at base, white with a black terminal brush of bushy hair; there is a faint indication of a colored line along its- upper surface (fig. 22). An adult male in newly-acquired winter pelage (No. tVAV, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y.), killed at Fossil Creek, in central Arizona, November 27, ISSo, weighed 128 pounds after being eviscerated and hung up in camp for several days. Upper parts nearly uniform grizzled lalumbeous-gray, the individual hairs being pale at base, then ash-gray, subterminally annulated with white, the pointed tii3s being black; underparts, from neck to hinder abdomen, fuliginous-black, darkest in the median line, this color extending well up on the flanks and gradually becoming grayish; throat whitish; inner side of limbs whit- ish, this gradually shad
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