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rufa), of Brazil, replaced in Central America by M. mrtorii. The wood-brocket 

 (M. nemorivaga) is a greyer South American species. Allied to the brockets is the 

 pudu (Pudua pudu), the smallest of all deer, which inhabits the Chilian Andes 

 and has very small, spike-like antlers. 



Another group of exclusively South American deer is that of the guemals, in 

 which the antlers are usually simply bifurcate. Of these, the Chilian guemal 

 (Mazama [Xenelaphus] bisulca) ranges from Santiago to the Straits of Magellan, 

 but is more common in the south than elsewhere, while the Peruvian guemal (M. 

 [X] antisiensis) inhabits the highlands of Peru. Yet another group, with a much 

 more complicated type of antlers, is represented by the pampas and the marsh deer, 



CHILIAN PUDU. 



both of which are confined to the eastern side of the continent. The smaller of the 

 two is the pampas-deer (M. [Blastoceros] bezoartica), a species with a shoulder- 

 height of about 30 inches, ranging from Paraguay and Uruguay through Argentina 

 to northern Patagonia ; it is the largest and commonest ungulate of the pampas. 



The second and larger species is the guazuti or marsh-deer (M. [B.] dichotonia ), 

 which inhabits south Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, where it frequents the 

 vicinity of marshes and lakes. In addition to its superior size, it differs from the 

 pampas-deer by the bright red colour of the hair, relieved by black on the front of 

 the limbs. Both the marsh-deer and the pampas-deer differ from the other 

 American members of the family by the reversal of the direction of the hair on 

 the withers and neck. 



