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rhombic tuft between the horn and face. Legs without any tuft 
on the outer sides of the metatarsus, but with a pencil on the 
inside of the hocks. Skull with a very small, shallow, suborbital 
pit, and supraorbital foramen in a groove. Confined to South 
America. 
They all emit a strong odour like porecupines. They cast their 
horns like the other Deer: 
Coassus, § 1. Coassus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. 
Subulo, H. Smith, Grifith A. K.v.  . 1827.. 
Subula, Lesson, Mamm. i. 273; Nov. Tab. R. A. 174. 
Subulus, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 62, 1828. 
Coassus, Gray, Med. Repos. 1821; Cat. Mamm. B. M. xxvii. 
Daguets, sp., Blainv. Desm. Mam. u. 449, 1822. 
Cervus, sp., Renger, 343. 
« * Skull face rather elongate. Suborbital pit large. 
1. Coassus NEMORIVAGUS. The GAUZU-VIVA. 
Pale brown. The hair dirt-coloured brown, with a yellow 
subterminal band which wears off; a paler spot over the eye. 
Young : Brown, white spotted, spots of sides unequal. Nape dark. 
Skull elongate. Suborbital pit broad, subtrigonal, shallow. 
Grinders moderate. Infraorbital ridge very distinct, sharp-edged. 
Intermaxillars not reaching to the nasal, but fit into a notch in 
the maxilla. 
Cervus nemorivagus, F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. vii. 485; Cuv. 
Oss. Foss. iv. 54. t. 5. f.50; Fischer, Syn. 446.618; H. Smith, 
G. A. K.iv.142.t.; Sundevall, Pecora, 60; Licht. Dargst. t.21. 
Coassus nemorivagus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850; Mammalia, 
t. 1, t. 2. f.1; List Mamm. B. M. 174; Cat. Ost. B. M. 64. 
Cervus nemorum, Desm. Mamm. 446. 
Cervus simplicicornis, Illiger, Pr. Max. Abbild. t.; H. Smith, 
G. A. K. v. 800. t.; R. Schomburgk, Reisen in Britisch Guiana, 
ii. 785; Renger, 269. 
Cervus mangivorus, Schrank, Wett. Trans. iv. 326. 
Cuguacu-Apara, Marcg. Bras. vi. 235. 
Young! Moschus delicatulus, Shaw, Mus. Lever. t. 36. 
Guazu-viva, Renger, 369. 
Hab. Brazils. 
a, 6. Females. Brazils. 
e. Young, with a distinct line of white spots on middle of the 
back; sides spotted. Brazils. 
Tragulus Surmamensis, Klein. Moschus Americanus, Fral. 
M. delicatulus, Shaw, Mus. Lever. t. 36; Seba, i. t. 44. f. 2, 
d. Male, adult. Brazils. 
