It is a big deer with pretty long ears, narrow and small tail. The color is gray or brown (temporary changes), white on intermediate places, male with a dark or black crown. The tail is white on its lower part with black a edge. Horns of adult males branch out. They have a 40 mm long gland in the exterior part of each hind leg, just under the corvus, and a big gland in the tear bone hole, in the corner of the eye whose bone distinguishes the craneum of a bura deer from a white tail.

Average Size: From head and body from 1,300 to 1,600 mm, in tail from 115 to 190 mm.

Average Weight: Males 64 to 114 kg (140 to 250 lbs), and Females from 45 to 70 kg (100 to 150 lbs).

They may be found throughout Baja California , in the desert zones of the State of Sonora and mesas of the center, extending from south to the north of the States of San Luis Potosí and southeast of Tamaulipas.

The bura deer of Baja California is like the deer of coast areas of the south of California in regards of size, appearance and its preference for a dense habitat with chaparral, holm oak or pine vegetation.