90 CERTIDJi. 



which is the Guemiil of Molina, and that C. leucotis is not found in 

 Chili. This animal is very like the Koebuck of Europe, but \Yithout 

 any glandular tufts on the outer side of the metcatarsus. The horns 

 are verj' peculiar, and unlike those of the Roebuck, or of the Tarush 

 or lloebuck of Bolivia {Fitrclfer antisiensis), which is the type of the 

 genus Furcifer. 



The male now obtained had a well-developed but rather unsym- 

 metrical pair of horns, which are so unlike the horns of any other 

 Deer that I propose to form for them a genus, which I proposed, in 

 the first short notice of it in ' Scientific Opinion,' to call Anomalocem ; 

 but finding that name preoccupied, in the more detailed account of 

 it I changed that name to Xenelaplius. 



There is in the British Museum a male Deer, purchased from the 

 Zoological Society, August 1851, said to have come from South 

 America, rather more than 2 feet high at the withers, which has only 

 small knobs in the place of horns. It is of a pale brown colour, more 

 dusky on the head, back of the neck, shoulders, and outside of the 

 legs ; a distinct yellowish streak over the upper edge of the orbit ; 

 the inside of the upper part- and the front edge of the thighs and 

 the underside of the tail white. It has no appearance of natural 

 metatarsal glands. The ears are moderate and nakedish. The nose 

 and middle of the chin is dark blackish, -with a large triangular spot 

 on the front of the upper leg, and a narrow white cross band imme- 

 diately iinder the front of the lower hp ; so that it differs from Ca- 

 riacus and Coassus in the colouring of the nose and chin, and from 

 the former in the want of the metatarsal gland. It agrees in some 

 respects with the figure of C. paludosus ; but the whole upper part 

 and forehead are black, and the underside of the tail white, and the 

 legs are not black as represented by Lichtenstein. 



It cannot be the original specimen oi punchdatu!^, which must have 

 been living about the same time ; for that was a female, and had the 

 base of the ears and the orbits and the abdomen white, and it had a 

 white spot behind the dark part of the nose, and a black tail, as is 

 well represented in Wolf's figure. It may be temporarily named 

 Homdaahus Inornatus. 



There was in the Zoological Gardens in 1850 a female Deer much 

 smaller than Canacus virgmianus. The fur was a very deep reddish 

 brown in summer, with a distinct subterminal band on the hair grey- 

 brown in winter. It differed from C'lriacus in having no visible 

 metatarsal gland. I described and figured it in the Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1850, p. 239, t. 28 (Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 232). Spencer Baird, 

 probably on account of its habitat, refers this species, with doubt, to 

 Cervus cohnnhiunvs ; but says he has not been able to consult the 

 figure. The want of the metatarsal gland, and the small size of the 

 animal make me think it is probably a Coassus or a Blastocerits. 

 rnfortunately the skin docs not appear to have been preserved. 



