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THE GUAZUPUCO-DEER. 



Manama paludosa.H. SMITH. 

 PLATE XVI. 



Del Guazu-pucu, Azara, Apuntamientos, i. p. 33, No. 4 . 

 Cervus paludosus, Desm. Mammalogie, p. 443 Guazu. 

 puco-deer, Griffith's Cuv. iv. 134. Cervus paludosus, 

 Lichtenstein, Saugethiere, pi. xvii. 



THIS deer, with the following, seems first to have 

 been noticed in the works of Azara. They were 

 afterwards introduced in the Mammalogy of Desma- 

 rest ; and we have a figure of our present species 

 in Griffith's translation of Cuvier, taken from a spe- 

 cimen exhibited in London. Later still (in 1829), 

 it is described and figured in Lichtenstein's Sauge- 

 thiere, which has supplied the material for our illus- 

 trations. It is nearly as large as the European stag. 

 The muzzle is large. The general colour is a red- 

 dish-bay, except the insides of the ears, the lower 

 part of the breast, and inside of the limbs, which are 

 white. The forehead and face is marked with a 

 dark broad stripe, which runs irregularly down on 

 each side of the lips, and is relieved by a paler tint 

 on the eyebrows and cheeks. It inhabits the lower 

 districts of Paraguay. 



