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SIMPLE ANTLERS 



are spotted. The antlers are occasionally very simple ; in C. rvfus 

 and a few allies (placed in a special sub-genus Coassus) they are 

 simple spikes without branches. In this genus, and in the nearly 

 allied and also New-World Pudua, the vomer is prolonged Ijack- 

 wards and divides the posterior nares into two. The 1)ulk of the 

 species are South American. 



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Fig. 154 — Chilian Deer. Cariacus chilensis. x^\. {From A'^ahtir.) 



. Pudua, just mentioned, comes from the Chilian Andes. It is 

 a small Deer without canines and with minute antlers. Other 

 generic names have been proposed for various species of American 

 deer. 



Hydropotcs inermis is a small perfectly hornless Deer, living 

 on the islands of the Yang-tse-kiang. The male has tusks ; the 

 young are spotted. Though, like other deer, Hydropotes has no 

 gall-1 )ladder, both Mr. Garrod ^ and Mr. Forbes - found the rudi- 



1 Froc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 789. 



- Froc. Zool. Soc. 1S82, p. 636. 



