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accompanying it when both were killed near El Panorama; a second 

 female, fully adult, taken on the savannas of Empalado; and a spotted 

 fawn which had been kept some days as a pet at El Panorama but 

 obligingly died the night before our arrival there. Specimens from Bonda 

 and Guairaca, Colombia, seem referable to the new form; likewise two 

 adults from Dibulla, Colombia, loaned by the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology. All the skulls examined except very aged ones show 

 traces of sockets of upper canines and it seems probable that these 

 teeth are normally present in the young. In the skull of the spotted 

 fawn above-mentioned, the canines are well-developed. 



The tarsal gland in our three specimens is perfectly obvious in the 

 dried skins, situated in a tuft of long hairs on the inner side of the 

 hock, the central hairs which cover it being pure white except at the 

 bases which are stained by sebaceous secretion. In the only Guiana 

 specimen available, no traces of the gland are to be seen although it is 

 possible they may have been destroyed in the preparation of the skin. 

 Fitzinger and Lydekker, following him, state that this gland is not 

 present in M. nemorivaga, but it is described and figured by Pocock 

 (P. Z. S., p. 962, fig. 139, 1910) from a specimen which he believed "to 

 have been correctly determined." Its source is unmentioned. 



These little matacanes are quite abundant a short distance from the 

 shore of Lake Maracaibo and thence eastward to the Empalado Sav- 

 annas where they are much less numerous than the large deer (Odocoileus) 

 to which the Spanish word venado, or deer, is exclusively applied. Like 

 the larger deer, they feed upon the fallen fruits of various large trees, 

 the "moquillo," the "carocaro" (Pithecolobium) , and the so-called 

 ebony being the particular ones in bearing at the time of our visits. 

 Our specimens were killed with buckshot, two as they came to feed at 

 the foot of a large ebony tree and the third as it jumped and galloped 

 excitedly for cover when suddenly surprised feeding under the brow of 

 a low ridge in the savannas. 



Another brocket called locho, perhaps M. rufa, is described by the 

 natives as larger and more reddish and of rather rare occurrence in the 

 region. 



Local name Matacan. 



? Mazama bricenii Thomas. Merida Brocket. 



Tracks and fresh signs of a small deer, possibly of this species, were 

 seen in rather rare instances on the upper slopes of Paramo de Tama. 



