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the flat skin of two Deer which probably belong to this genus, and 

 appear distinct from the preceding : 1 . The Orenoka Beer (of the 

 Company's list). It came from Central America, is of a large size, 

 of a bright red-brown colour, with the hair of the back short and 

 rather adpressed, the chin and under part of the body white, the tail 

 blackish ; 2. The Yucatan Deer, about the size of \\\& American Beer 

 (0. Virginianus), but very distinct from the skin of that species in 

 the same store ; the fur is short red brown with blackish tips. 



..^1 15. CoAssus, Gray; Subuloy H. Smith, Sundeval. 



Horns simple, rudimentary, shelving back ; ears rather short, broad, 

 rounded ; tail short ; the facial line rather convex ; the fur short, of 

 the forehead (in both sexes) elongate, forming a rhombic tuft between 

 the horns and face ; legs without any tuft on the outside of the meta- 

 tarsus, but with a pencil on the inside of the hocks. Confined to Tro- 

 pical or South America. 

 * Ears nakedish ; skull with a very small, shallow, suborbital pit ; 



ai 1 supraorbital foramens in a groove. East coast of America. 



-■vus Coassus. ^jj 



* ' 1. Coassus NEMORivAGus. The Cuguacu-apara. ^^^ 



Pale brown; the hair dull-coloured, brown, with a yellow subterminal 

 band which wears off; a paler streak over the eyes. Young : brown, 

 white spotted ; spots of sides imequal ; nape dark. Skull elongate, 

 suborbital pit broad, subtrigonal shallow ; grinders moderate, infra- 

 orbital ridge very distinct, sharp-edged. The intermaxillaries do not 



j*ach to the nasal but fit into a notch in the maxilla. 



r^U-Cervus nemo7'ivagus, F. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. vii. 485; Cuvier, 

 Oss. Foss. iv. 54. t. 5. f. 50; Fischer, Syn. 446, 618 ; H. Smith, 

 G. A. K. iv. 142. t. ; Sundev. Pecora, 60 ; Licht. Darstel. t. 21.— 

 Coassus nemorivagus. Gray, Cat. Osteol. B. M. 64 ; Knows. Menag. 

 68. t. 48. — Cervus nemorum, Desm. Mam. 446. — C. simplicicornis, 

 lUiger, Pr. Max. Abbild. t. . — Young? Moschus delieatula, Shaw, 

 Mus. Lever, t. 36. 



•f''" Inhabits Brazils. 



^'^ A male specimen at Knowsley Menagerie was dark brown ; streak 

 on each side of the forehead, upper part of the legs and spot on the 

 angles of the lower lip blackish ; streak over each eye yellowish ; 

 undeclip and spot on upper lip near muffle, underside of the tail and 

 inner side of the upper part of the thighs white ; muffle smooth, 

 bluish, upper edge slightly arched ; ears small, lower half of the 

 inner side black. 



This male was the size of a full-grown Roebuck, as is the largest 

 of the genus in the Menagerie. 



^'* There is a female at Knowsley which is probably a young female of 

 this species. Mr. Fraser thus described it : "A female : dark grey, 

 tinged with brown, greyer on the head and neck ; the lower part, and 

 the inside of legs, the belly and round the eyes rust-coloured ; the 

 purple brown patch in the ears smaller and less distinct than C. rufus. 

 A small white stripe in front of the eyes and the under surface of the 

 tail white ; from the eyes to the nose short and thick compared with 

 the other specimens." 



