432 Zoological Society. 



2. Coassus rufus. The Cuguacu-ete or Pita. 



The fur bright shining red ; crown and neck grey ; sides of face 

 and chest paler. Young : reddish, white spotted, spots of side un- 

 equal ; nape with a distinct white-edged dark central streak ; the 

 muffle carunculated, rather angularly produced above. 



Far. With white rings above the hoofs. 



Cervus rufm, F. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. vii. 485 ; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. 

 iv. 53. t. 3. f. 41, 42, t. 5. f. 44 ; H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 140. t. j 

 Pr. Max. Abbild. t. ; Fischer, Syn. 44G, 618; Licht. Darst. t. 20 ; 

 Sundeval, Pecora, GO. — Cervus simplicicornis {Apara ft.), H. Smith, 

 G. A. K. iv. 141. t. . — C. dolichurus, Wagner, Supp. iv. 389. — 

 Cariacou de la Ghiyane, Buffon, ix. 90. — Biche rouge, Buffon, Supp. 

 iii. 126. — Gouazou pita, Azara. — Coassus rufus, Gray, Knows. Men. 

 69. t.47. 



Inhabits S. America. 



The males cast their horns in the month of September, and they 

 are very shortly replaced by a new pair. 



Mr. Fraser has kindly sent me the following description of the fe- 

 male at Knowsley : — " A female : light red brown, neck and head 

 greyer ; darker grey on the hocks and upper part of the fore legs ; 

 the forehead with one black stripe on each side a grey one in the 

 centre, which leaves two brown yellow stripes on each side ; ears with 

 a purplish brown patch of about a third of the whole extent inside ; 

 the muffle is carunculated, of a purplish hue." 



3. Coassus superciliaris. The Eyebrowed Brocket. 



Bright shining red ; neck and head grey ; forehead darker ; hocks 

 and front of the fore legs grey ; stripe in front of the eye and under- 

 surface of the tail white ; muffle deeply arched above ; ears moderate. 



Coassus superciliaris, Gray, Gleanings Knows. Menag. t. 48. 



Inhabits the Brazils. Para. 



This species chiefly differs from the former in the form of the 

 muffle and in the presence of the white streak over the eyes. There 

 is a male at Knowsley, and formerly there was a female in the Gar- 

 dens of the Society. 



4. Coassus auritus. Large-eared Brocket. 



Bright pale red brown ; head and neck grey ; orbits pale brown- 

 ish ; spot on side of upper lip, chin, belly, hinder side of fore and 

 front side of hinder thighs and under side of tail, white ; crown dark 

 grey brown ; ears very large, broad, acute, more than half the length 

 of the head, with two lines of hairs in them. 



Inhabits the Brazils. 



There is a female of this species in the Gardens of the Society ; it 

 greatly resembles the Indian Muntjac in the distribution of its colour. 



In the British Museum there are two skulls which belong to these 

 species. They have the face shorter and thicker than the skull of 

 C. nemorivagus, the nasals are wider behind ; the suborbital pit small 

 or less impressed, and the grinder larger. 



The first belongs to a young specimen in the Museum Collection, 

 apparently of C. rufus. It has a small slightly impressed pit just in 



