. [Collected reprints, 1912-1919. Mammals; Mammals; Birds. 6o Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. Skull more than 15 inches long (average adult, 22 to 23 inches); antlers heavy, broad, much flattened and largely in one piece, without long irregular branches; tines extending in sim- ple points from the edge of the main part of the antler; upper canines absent; female without antlers; general body color, brownish black; end of nose covered with hair (except a narrow slit between nostrils). 1 Moose. Paralces americanus, p 74. Subfamily CERVINE. Genus ODOCOILEUS Rafin. Odocoileus
. [Collected reprints, 1912-1919. Mammals; Mammals; Birds. 6o Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. Skull more than 15 inches long (average adult, 22 to 23 inches); antlers heavy, broad, much flattened and largely in one piece, without long irregular branches; tines extending in sim- ple points from the edge of the main part of the antler; upper canines absent; female without antlers; general body color, brownish black; end of nose covered with hair (except a narrow slit between nostrils). 1 Moose. Paralces americanus, p 74. Subfamily CERVINE. Genus ODOCOILEUS Rafin. Odocoileus Rafinesque, Atlantic Journal, I, No. 3, 1832, p. 109. Type Odocoileus speleus Rafin. = Cervus dama americanus Erxleben. Lateral hoofs developed but comparatively small; terminal half of antlers curved forward, the tines extending from back side of antler; antlers (normally) in male only; upper canines absent; exposed meta- tarsal gland on outer side of leg; lateral metacarpals complete. 0-0 ^ 0-0 „ 3-3 Dental formula:* I. 3-3 C. ^^, Pm. 2,-i M. ^-^=32. 3-3 Odocoileus virginianus (Bodd.). Virginia Deer. White-tailed Deer. Cervus virginianus Bodd., Elench. Animal, I, 1785, p. 136. Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1869 (1871), p. 186 (Iowa). Cervus Virginianus Kennicott, Trans. 111. State Agr. Soc, I, 1853-54 (1855), p. 580 (Cook Co., IlUnois). Cariacus virginianus Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., XXVI, 1894, p. 4 (Kentucky). Odocoileus virginianus Allen, Amer. Nat., XXXIV, 1900, p. 318. Hahn, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXII, 1907, p. 456 (Indiana). 76., Ann. Rept. Dept. Geol. Nat. Resources Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 457 (Indiana). Odontoccelus americanus Elliot, Field Mus. Pub., Zool. Ser., VI, 1905, p. 43. Odocoileus americanus Wood, Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., VIII, 1910, p. 516 (Illinois). Type locality — Virginia. Distribution — Formerly middle United States, from north of Florida and the Gulf states to about latitude 43, and west to the plains; beyond these limits
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