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the Andes of the country from which it takes its pupuhir title ; prohably 

 on the east side of the main range. There appear to be no reasons tor 

 separating the Patagonian animal, even racially. At first sight it might 

 seem likely that the Peruvian and Chilian guemals would be nothing 

 more than local forms of one widely-spread species ; but the important 

 points of difference indicated above leave little doubt as to the propriety of 

 regarding them in the light of separate species. 



This species appears to range throughout Patagonia, where it is much 

 more common than in the Chilian Andes ; the western side of the country 

 being the part where it is most abundant. Very little is known with 

 regard to the habits of either species. In the Andes they are stated to 

 frequent the forest-clad mountain valleys during summer, whence they 

 descend in winter to the plains, where, however, they never depart far 

 from the outskirts of the range. 



THE RED BROCKET 



[Maz.iuiia nifa) 



The so-called brockets of Central and South America, which form the 

 typical representatives of the genus Ma-zaiiia, and to which indeed that 

 term is restricted by American naturalists, are all deer of small size, with 

 the antlers of the bucks still simpler than those of the guemels. These 

 appendages are, in fact, as shown in Plate VII. Fig. lo, mere unhranched 

 spikes, like the first antlers of a red deer ; and it is for this reason that 

 the term brocket has been applied to these small American Cci-vidre. 

 They are further characterised bv the invariable absence of the metatarsal 

 gland and tuft from the outer side of the lower segment of the hind-limb, 

 antl in two of their representatives the tarsal gland and tuft are also 

 wanting from the inner side of the hock. All brockets have highly 



