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SIMPLE ANTLERS 



are spotted. The antlers are occasionally very simple ; in C. rnfus 

 and a few allies (placed in a special sub-genus Coassus) they are 

 simple spikes without branches. In this genus, and in the nearly 

 allied and also New- World Pvdua, the vomer is prolonged back- 

 wards and divides the posterior nares into two. The bulk of the 

 species are South American. 



FIG. 154. Chilian Deer. Cariacus chilensis. x T V. (From Nature.) 



Pudua, just mentioned, comes from the Chilian Andes. It is 

 a small Deer without canines and with minute antlers. Other 

 generic names have been proposed for various species of American 

 deer. 



Hydropotes inermis is a small perfectly hornless Deer, living 

 on the islands of the Yang-tse-kiang. The male has tusks ; the 

 young are spotted. Though, like other deer, Hydropotes has no 

 gall-bladder, both Mr. Garrod a and Mr. Forbes 2 found the rudi- 



1 Proc. Zool. Soe. 1877, p. 789. 



- Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 636. 



