54 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 14. NIO 4. 



The feet beneath »knees» and hocks are dark with the 

 colour which in description of Kuminants often is termed 

 »bluish black». The above mentioned black-headed female 

 forms an exception as it has its lovver legs much mixed with 

 rufous and in additions to this there are several scattered 

 white hairs on the posterior side of the metacarpals and 

 metatarsals, and still more at the pasterns and just above 

 the hoofs. This is, however, undoubtedly only an individual 

 variation and probably a sign of old age. Allén has also 

 stated^ something similar in an old female of this species. 



The antiers of the best male (the head) have a maximum 

 length of 73 mm from burr to tip. 



The upper parts of the head, neek and back of the foetus 

 are blackish brown, or the darkest shade of »warm sepia 

 (Oberthur: 305, 4), but on the hindmost parts of the back 

 on the upper side of the tail it becomes more and more mixed 

 with chestnut red. On either side of the back is a sharply 

 pronounced band of rufous spöts. This row begins at the 

 side of the withers and ends at the root of the tail. A little 

 below this is a second row which is well conspicuous on the 

 före quarters, but becomes less sharply defined on the flanks, 

 partly because these parts become more and more mixed 

 with rufous or »fawn» (308, 3) towards the lower side, which 

 displays a paler shade of fawn (308, 1). On the posterior 

 flanks and hindquarters there are some more similar spöts, 

 but less sharply defined and not visibly arranged in rows. 

 The inside of the legs is coloured like the belly; the front 

 of the metacarpals and the metatarsals all round are sepia 

 brown. 



Mazama gualea Allén. 



1 $ ad. lo/i 1913, Niebli (also Nanegal) 6—7,000 feet; 

 >>Always found in the sugar-cane fields. The males are very 

 shy.« L. S— M. 



1 ? young ad. i^g 1916, above Nono, 11,000 feet. »Found 

 in the sugar-cane plantations at Mindo, Niebli etc. 5,000— 

 6,000 feet. It is very rarely found as high up as this spe- 

 cimen was shot. The Indians who brought it had not seen 

 any be före.» L. S— M. 



^ Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., Vol. XXXIV, p. 540. 



