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that it is a small species of Blastocerus ; but it differs from both the 

 Guazu pucu (B. paludosus) and the Guazuti {B. campestris) in the 

 form of the horns ; and its size and the name, the " wood-deer,'* 

 show that its habits are different from the B. campestris or B. 

 paludosus ; and I therefore propose to call it B. sylvestris. The 

 species may be thus described : — 



Blastocerus sylvestris. (The Wood-Deer.) 



Horns short, slender, smoothish, forked above ; the front snag 

 elongate, projecting forwards, and suddenly rather angularly bent 

 upwards, with a slight tubercle on the middle of the lower edge, 

 and a small snag rather below it on the inner side of the upper 

 edge. 



The skull shows all the signs of full age ; but the sutures between 

 the bones are very well marked, and very much dentated and 

 interlocked. 



Hob. Brazil (Rev. G. T. Hudson.) 



This deer has nothing to do with the "Cariacou deer" (Cervus 

 nemoralis) figured by Colonel Hamilton Smith in the 'Animal 

 Kingdom,' iv. p. 137, t., which has horns different from those of 

 any other animal that has occurred to me. I am inclined to think 

 they are deformed. 



Dolphins from the Cape of Good Hope. 

 By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. 



M. van Beneden, in the ' Bulletin Acad. Roy. de Belgique ' for 

 July 1873, has described and figured two drawings of Cetacea from 

 the Cape of Good Hope, which he observed in the album of the 

 Comte de Castelnau. He calls one Orca capensis, Gray, $ , and the 

 other Lagenorhynchus de Castelnau. The drawing of the Orca was 

 named Delphinus Heavisidii by Castelnau, which M. van Beneden con- 

 siders a synonym of Orca capensis ; but I believe this to be a mistake. 

 They are two most distinct animals ; and M. van Beneden has mis- 

 understood the Comte de Castelnau's note about the teeth, regarding 

 the number on one side, ^, as meaning the number on the two sides ; 

 and the Orca capensis y Van Beneden (Bull. Acad. Roy. Belgique, 

 t. xxxvi. f. 1) is Eutopia Heavisidii, Gray, Suppl. Cat. Seals and 

 Whales, p. 75. 



There is no account of the bones and teeth of Lagenorhynchus 

 de Castelnau ; but I should consider, from the figure, that it is a 

 species of the restricted genus Delphinus. 



M. van Beneden observes, " Les Lagenorhynques du Dr. Gray 

 etablis d'apres des cranes du British Museum, sont d'origine in- 

 connue," overlooking the fact that the animal of Lagenorhynchus 

 albirostris and L. leucopleurus have been figured, and are known to 

 inhabit the North Sea. 



