lO PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



Mr. Prichard confirms Hatcher's statement regarding the absence of this 

 animal south of the Rio Santa Cruz. He found it "very common in the 

 vicinity of Bahia Camerones." He further says : " I saw no specimen 

 in the forests of the Andes, but near Lake Buenos Aires and Lake Viedma 

 we found them about the foothills " (/. c, p. 258). 



Order UNGULATA. 



The Ungulates are represented in the existing fauna of southern Pata- 

 gonia by two species only, the Guanaco, belonging to the Camelidae, and 

 the Guamul, a Cervid. 



Family CERVID^. 



The Deer of Patagonia constitutes a peculiar type restricted to the 

 southern Andean region. Although it has only recently become well 

 known, it has a peculiarly interesting literary history, as shown below. 



Genus HIPPOCAMELUS Leuckart. 



Hippocameliis Leuckart, De Equo bisulco Molinae, 18 16, 23. Type, Hip- 



pocamelits dubms = EqHus bisulcus Molina. — Thomas, P. Z. S., 1898, 



212. — T. S. Palmer, Science (2), X, No. 249, Oct. 6, 1899, 494; 



Index Gen. Mamm., 1904, 326. 

 Cerveqims Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Regne Anim., 1842, 173. Type and only 



species, Eqmis bisulcus Molina. 

 Fjircifer Wagner, Schreber's Saug. Suppl, IV, 1844, 384. Type and 



only species, Cervus autisiensis Pucheran = Equus bisulcus Molina. — 



Gray, P. Z. S., 1850, 236. 

 Xenelaphus Gray, P. Z. S., 1869, 498. Type, Xe^ielaphus huamel, sp. 



now. = Equus bisulcus Molina {(f with malformed antlers). 

 Anomalocera Gray, Scientific Opinion, Oct. 6, 1869, 385. [Cf. Philippi, 



Arch. f. Naturg., 1870, i, 46.) 

 Huamela Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), X, Dec. 1872, 445 (in 



text); ibid., XI, March, 1873, 217. Type, Huamela lettcotis (Gray) 



= Equus bisulcus Molina. 

 Creagoceros Fitzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wien, LXVIII, 1873, 358. Includes 



Cervus antisiensis D'Orbigny, and Cervus chilensis Gay & Gervais. 

 In 1782, Molina, as is well known, mentioned and gave names to a 

 large number of the mammals of Chili, describing some of them in suffi- 



