Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By 1806
Primary Source Reference:
"Walk through the Museum" (1805-1806), p. 37
Additional Source Text:
"Its well turned and delicate limbs, stately cariage and smooth Skin, render it the Admiration of most foreigners that visit this Museum.
"The female is smaller, not fully grown -- and neither of them so large as may sometimes be seen in our woods. Between the toes is found a small hard skin bag, containing a substance something like soft Wax, of a very strong scent. It may be common to the whole genus, and no doubt it is the cause of the Dog’s rapid scent of them in the chace. The Horns of the Deer are solid, and shed or cast annually; this particularly distinguishes them from Antilopes, some of which would otherwise be taken for Deer, as they have the same Physiognomy, and delicate form of limbs."
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Peale's Scientific Name:
Cervus virginianus
Current Common Name:
White-tailed deer
Current Scientific Name
Odocoileus virginianus
