MAMMALIA. 223 



Horns on skull (diseased), very warty. Scotland. Presented 

 by Lord Willoughby d'Eresby. 



Two skulls, female. Mr. Argent's Collection. 



Var. Horns divided into several short branches at the top. 

 Roe Buck in Berlin Mus., H. Smith in Griffith A. K. iv. 1. 164. f. 6. 

 Cervus from Brazils (?), Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. t. 3. f. 48. 



2. CAPREOLUS PYGARGUS. The AHU. 



Interior of the ears fulvous. Chin pale, blackish behind, nearly 

 to the angle of the mouth. 



Cervus pygargus, Pallas, Reise, i. 97, 198, 433; ii. 159; Spic. 



xii. 7 ; Erxl. Syst. 317 ; Gmelin, S. N. i. 175 (not Hardwicke) ; 



Schreb. Saugth. 1118. t. 253; Desm. Mamm. 440; Fischer, 



Syn. 450, 619; Brandt, Bull Acad. Petersb. iii. 280; Wiegm. 



Arch. 1845, ii. 40. 



C. capreolus /3, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 219. 

 Cervus Ahu, Griffith, A. K. iv. 122. t., v. 789. 

 Ami, S. G. Gmelin, Reise, iii. 496. t. 56. 

 Capreolus pygargus, J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 62, 1828; Sundevall, 



Pecora, 61 ; Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 176; Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1849, 64. 



Tailless Deer, Penn. Quad. i. 121. 

 Tailless Roe, Shaw, Zool. ii. 287. 

 Chevreuil de Tartarie, Cuv. Reg. Anim. i. 257. 

 Ahu, Persians. 

 Siaga, Tartars. 

 Dikaja Kosa, Russians. 

 Hob. Central Asia. 



A male and female. Siberia. From M. Brandt's Collection. 



b. Tarsal tuft absent or below middle of bone. New Continent. 

 Mazamadse, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 



2. BLASTOCERUS. 



Horns straight, erect, three-branched, without any basal snag. 

 Tail very short. Ears rather large. Fur consisting of very thin, 

 soft hair. They have a distinct pencil of hairs on the inside of 

 the hock, but none on the outside of the metatarsus. Skull with 

 oblong suborbital pit, rather deep. Confined to South America. 

 The young are described by Azara as not spotted ! 



Blastocerus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. 



Blastocerus, sp., Wagler ; Sundevall, Pecora, 59 ; Gray, Knowsley 



