84 CERVID^. 



C. leucurus by the beam being shorter, stouter, and ascending so 

 that the tips are much above the base of the horns. They have a 

 long subbasal aud two elongated compressed snags on the hinder 

 side. The animal figured by M. Pucheran as C. simiUs, Arch, du 

 Mus. vi. p. ;:!62, t. 26, would probably bo very like the horns here 

 referred to when a little more developed. 



There is a female American Deer, which the Museum received from 

 the Zoological Society, and which is entered in the Catalogue of their 

 Museum published in 1835, p. 39. no. 354, the Woodland Deer, 

 C. nemomlis, H. Smith, from South America, which may be the female 

 of this species. The fur is ashy brown, rather rough, paler beneath ; 

 the sides of the head and nose, the upper Hp, guUet. and throat 

 white ; the upper margin of the muffle and back edge of the nostrils, 

 a spot on each side of the chin dark brown ; orbits whitish ; tail the 

 same colour above as the back, blackish at the end and white beneath. 

 The hair of the chest is whorled. There is a pair of horns also iii 

 the Museum, 681 v, without habitat, which probably belong to this 

 species. They differ in the upper part, of the beam being much 

 more slender, and in having only one, submedian suag on the upper 

 surface. 



** Horns short, the beam suberect, rather arched forward, icith one, rarely 

 two snar/s on the hinder side of the upper part. (Cuv. Oss. Foss. iii. t. 5. 

 f. 19-2±) Central or South America. 



•^ 4. Cariacus mexicanus. (Acidliame.) B.M. 



Fur brown, punctulated with yellow ; forehead and crown blackish, 

 with hair cUverging from a central longitudinal Hue ; legs grey ; tail 

 same colour as the back above, underside and tip white ; upper lip 

 and hinder part of lower lip black ; spot on sides of nostrils and lower 

 lip white ; upper part of tail like back, margin and tip white ; sides 

 ^ 1 '^*) of nose and chin brown ; a narrow white streak behind the brown 

 *t/ on the nose. Male and female from Costa Eica. 



^^ AcuUiame, Hernandez. 



Chevi-euils d'Amerique, Daubent. Bufon's H. N. \\. p. 24-3, t. 37. f. 1, 2 



(horns, good) ; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. p. 36, t. 5. f. 19-22. 

 Mexican Deer, Pennant, Quad. (part, from Buffon). 

 Biche de Savannes, La Borde, Buffon s H. N. Suppl. iii. p. 126 (young 



in winter) ; Cvvier, I. c. 

 Kiclie des Paletu\-iers, La Borde, Buffon' s H. N. Suppl. iii. p. 126 (adult 



male ) ; Cuvier, I. c. 

 ^ Cervus mexicanus, Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 179 (from Pennant) ; Schreber, 



V. p. 1122 ; Waaler, Suppl. iv. p. 378, t. 351a (vei-y bad) ; Lichten- 



stein, Darstellunff, t. 18; Baird, Mamm. N. A. p. 6o3 (from 



Souora). 

 Cariacou, Biffon, Dauhenton, Hist. Nat. xii. p. 347, t. 44 (female) ; 



Ihicheran, Arch, du Mus. vi. p. 363 (fr-om Cayenne). 

 Mazame, F. Cunier, Mamm. Lithoc/. 1832, t. 

 ^ Cariacus savanuanun, Cabanis Sf Schomhurgk, Beisenin Brit. Guian. 



iii. p. 785 : Grai/, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 236 (from Guiana, ouly 



slightly indicated). 

 Cervus spinosus, Gay Sf Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat. 1846, p. 94 (from 



