2096 SIMPLE ANTLERS CHAP. 
are spotted. The antlers are occasionally very simple ; in C. rufus 
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 back- 
wards and divides the posterior nares into two. The bulk of the 
species are South American. 
Fic. 154.—Chilian Deer. Cariacus chilensis. x+y. (From Nature.) 
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. 
Hydropotes 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-bladder, both Mr. Garrod’ and Mr. Forbes” found the rudi- 
1 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 789. 2 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 636. 
