' Vol. 72, pp. 93-96 July 24, 1959 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGT A NEW RACE OF RED BROCKET DEER (MAZAMA AMERICANA) FROM COLOMBIA By Philip Hershkovitz Chicago Natural History Museum The first and only known specimen of the red brocket of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, northern Colombia, appears to represent a race new to science. It is named in honor of its collector and my very dear friend, Mr. Melbourne A. Carriker, Jr. Mr. Carriker 's career as a museum collector is one of the most re-markable in the history of tropical American ornithology, mammalogy and mallophagology. It began in Costa Rica in 1902 and has continued through the years in Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, and Colombia, with interruptions only for the study of his specialties in the museums of Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Chicago. I met this extra-ordinary man for the first time in 1942 in the little sun-baked village of Valencia at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. We were both collecting in the same region, he birds, I mammals. Carriker was already established as dean of collectors and he had long before earned a solid reputation as an ornithologist and world authority on Mallophaga. At the time of our first meeting, Carriker was already at an age when most men retire. Nevertheless, during that year, and on into the next decade when our trails crossed again the indefatigable Carriker maintained his pace as the most active and successful bird collector in the Americas. Now, in the eightieth year of his rich and colorful life, Mr. Carriker continues to add to the thousands of Mallophaga, the nearly 100,000 birds and mammals he has already collected, and to the many scientific discoveries made known through his publications and through those of others. The following description of the red brocket of the Sierra Nevada is a contribution to the systematic revision of all Neotropical deer being prepared by the writer. I am grateful to the authorities of the U. S. National Museum for their permission to study and describe the South American Cervidae in their charge. Mazama americana carrikeri, new subspecies Type. — Subadult female, skin and skull, U. S. National Museum no. 282137; collected 26 February, 1946, by M. A. Carriker, Jr. Type locality. — Mamancanaca, a high valley just south of the snow 17— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 72, 1959 (93) SMHHSON/AN 'nst/tution T JUL 2 4 1959
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