. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. 260 American Deer hairs of the upper side of tail are dark-red brown at base and cinnamon at tips ; under side of the tail white, the hairs very long ; eyelashes jet black. An old male, in worn midsummer coat, has lost the banding of the hairs and is a bright russet cinnamon above, which extends to the front of the eyes. The muzzle is very sparsely haired, and of a grizzled hair-brown colour, with a black spot behind each nostril. The tail is broadly edged with black at
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. 260 American Deer hairs of the upper side of tail are dark-red brown at base and cinnamon at tips ; under side of the tail white, the hairs very long ; eyelashes jet black. An old male, in worn midsummer coat, has lost the banding of the hairs and is a bright russet cinnamon above, which extends to the front of the eyes. The muzzle is very sparsely haired, and of a grizzled hair-brown colour, with a black spot behind each nostril. The tail is broadly edged with black at the base and black above at the tip. An old male from Blitches Ferry, Citrus County, Florida, in fresh autumnal pelage, is very dark above, the lower dark band of the hairs extending to their base and. Fig. 70.—Florida Deer. From a photograph by Mr. Rowland Ward. imparting to the whole upper-parts a rich dark-brown colour, variegated by the yellow bands of some of the hairs; tail not edged with black, but like that of the type. A half-grown female has the hairs of the back unhanded and is clay-colour above, beautifully marked with small irregular white ; The limbs are longer, the antlers longer, the teeth larger, and the muzzle more elongated than in the next race. Distribution.—Peninsula of Florida. Mr. Bangs writes that the Florida deer is of very general distribution over the whole of peninsular Florida, but in the more thickly settled and accessible parts of the State it has been much reduced in numbers of late. Its northern range is unknown to me, and I am therefore unable to state whether or not it overlaps the range of M. americana Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, R. Ward, limited
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