214 catalogue of ungulates 



Incert^ Sedis. 



1. Coassus auritus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 242, Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist. ser. 2, vol. ix, p. 432, 1852, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mm. 

 p. 239, 1852, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 92, 1872; nee 

 Cervus auritus, Desmarest. 



Cervus (Subulo) auritus, Wagner, Schrcher's Saugthiere, Suppl. 

 vol, V, p. 336, 1855. 



Subulo auritus, Fitzinger, Sitzber. Ji. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixviii, 

 pt. 1, p. 360, 1873, vol. Ixxix, pt. 1, p. 19, 1879. 



Mazama aurita, Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, p. 306, 1898. 



Named from a Brazilian (?) skin, now lost ; possibly the 

 female of M. americcma. 



2. Mazama rondoni, Eibeiro, Comin. Linhas Telegr. de Matto Orosso 



ao Amazonias, Annex 5, Hist. Nat., Mammiferos {Rio de Janeiro), 

 p. 33, 1914. 



Typified by a male skin and female skeleton from 

 Poaya, Amazonia, in the Museum at Eio de Janeiro. 

 Dimensions are given, and the colour is said to be dark, but 

 the description is otherwise insufficient. 



XL Genus PUDU. 



Pudu, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 242, Cat. Buminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 92, 1872 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 967. 



Nanelaphus, Fitzinger, Sitzber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixviii, pt. 1, 

 p. 360, 1873, vol. Ixxix, pt. 1, p. 31, 1879, partim. 



Pudua, Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 18; Brooke, ibid. 1878, 

 p. 296; de Winton, ibid. 1896, p. 508; Lydekker, Deer of All 

 Lands, p. 307, 1898. 



Skull and metacarpals generally as in Mazama; size 

 very small ; coat coarse and l)rittle ; antlers in the form of 

 short, simple spikes ; cannon-bones very short ; tail short or 

 wanting ; hair of forehead either reversed or directed uni- 

 formly backwards from muzzle to crown ; ears large and 

 rounded ; face-glands present or absent ; naked portion of 

 muzzle variable ; tarsal, metatarsal and interdigital glands 

 absent ; upper canines wanting ; external cuneiform of tarsus 

 united with naviculo-cuboid. 



The genus includes two species — one from the highlands 

 of Chile and the other from those of Ecuador — severally 



