88 CERVID^. 



14. FURCIFER. 



Horns erect, without any basal snag. Ears narrow, acute. Tail 

 short. Pur thick, rather brittle, waved hairs. SkuU with a tri- 

 angular, rather shallow suborbital pit. IntermaxiUaries broad, tri- 

 angular, not reaching the nasals. 



Furcifer, Gray, Cat. U)u/id. B. M. p. 226. 

 Hippocamelus, Zeiickart. 

 Cervequus, Lesson (from Molina). 



1. Furcifer antisiensis. (The Guemul or Tarush.) B.M. 



Furcifer auti.^iensis, Grai/, Cat. Ungul. B. 31. p. 22(3. 



Cerviis chilensis, Gay ^- Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat. 1846, p. 91, t. 



(skuU). 

 Cervus antisiensis, D' Orhiyny, Voy. Anier. Mer. t. 20. 



Hah. Boli\-ian Alps and Peru ; Chili {Molina, Gay). Mus. Paris. 



The skull in the British Museum. 



Travellers in Chili have mentioned a two-hoofed animal, called 

 Guemul, or Huamul. It lias been so indistinctly indicated that Mo- 

 lina regarded it as a Horse, Hamilton Smith as a Llama, and the 

 compilers (such as Leu(kart and Lesson) considered that it might be 

 a peculiar genus, for which they gave the compound names of Ilip- 

 pomrnelus and Cervequus. M. Gay (1838) regarded it as a new 

 genus, but did not give a name to it. 



In 1846 MM. Gay and Gervais, when preparing a work on the 

 Mammals of Chili, described a young specimen in the I'aris Museum 

 without horns under the name of Cervus chile nsix ; aud M. Philippi, 

 in Wiegmanu's Arch. 1870, p. 46, says that M. Gay's animal is the 

 same as Cervus antisiensis, D'Orbigiiv. As the first skin we received 

 of Capreolus leucotis was seat from the coast of Cliili, I thouglit that 

 it was the long-lost Guemul of Molina ; but M. Philijjpi, who lives 

 at Santiago, says that C. leucotis does not inhabit Cliili. The skin 

 was probably obtained, like Mr. WTiitely's specimens, from the 

 Penivian Andes. 



lleferences to the works of the compilers are given in my ' Cata- 

 logue of Ungulata,' p. 227. 



♦ 



VI. The Gi'EMULS. — Antlers erect, with conical snays, and the larye hori- 

 zontal basal posterior branches with reyiilar conical snays. No e.vternal 

 metatarsal yland. 



15. XENELAPHUS. 



The horns divide from the base into two branches ; the front one 

 is erect, conical, and acute, M-ith a short conical branch on the outer 

 side, aud one or two more or less elongate basal anterior or interior 

 snags in the middle. The hinder i)art of the base and sheath 

 compressed, diverging horizontally into a strong, angular, tapering 

 branch, which is nearly as long as the erect one, with several irre- 

 gularly placed, more or less elongate, acute processes ; the upper 

 part, near the roots, with one or two cylindrical diverging branches 



