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Cervus campestris, F. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. vii. 484 ? ; Desm. 



Man.; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 51. t. 5. f. 46, 47; Pr. Max. 



Beitr. ii. 583; Abbild. t. ; Water house in Darwin, Zool. Beagle, 



29. fig. horns; H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 136. t., v. 797; Ren- 



ger, 350; Licht. Darst. t. 19. $ $ and jun. 

 Cervus leucogaster, Goldf. Schreb. Saugth. 1127. 

 Cervus (Mazama) campestris (Guazuti Deer), H. Smith, Griffith 



A. K. iv. 136. t. 1/0, v. 797. 



Mazama campestris, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 176; Cat. Osteol. 



B. M. 64. 



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



Furcifer campestris, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 58. 



Cervus (furcifer) campestris, Sundevall, Pecora, 60. 



Cuquacu apara, Marcgr. Bras. vi. 235. 



Biche de Pampas, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. 52. 



Biche de Savanne, De la Borde, Buff. Supp. iii. 126. 



Gouazou-ti, Azara, Essai, i. 77. 



Guazu-y, Renger, 350. 



Guazu'ti, in Paragua. 



Guazu para, in Brazils. 



Hab. South America ; North Patagonia. 



Male, female and young. Northern Patagonia. Presented by 

 Sir William Burnett and Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. (Specimens de- 

 scribed by Darwin and Waterhouse.) 



OSTEOL. t. 35. f. 1-3. Cuvier, Oss. Foss. iv. t. 3. f. 46 (scarcely 



f. 47 or 48) ; Pr. Max. Abbild. t. 



Horns on frontal bone. Northern Patagonia. From Haslar 

 Hospital Museum. (Capt. Fitzroy's Expedition.) 



Skull with horns. " Columbia." The Parzudaki Collection. 



Cervus campestris is exceedingly abundant, often in small 

 herds, throughout the countries bordering the Plata and in North- 

 ern Patagonia. If a person crawling close along the ground 

 slowly advances towards a herd, the deer, frequently out of cu- 

 riosity, approach to reconnoitre him. I have by this means killed 

 from one spot three out of the same herd. Although so tame 

 and inquisitive, yet when approached on horseback they are ex- 

 ceedingly wary. At Bahia Blanca, a recent establishment in 

 Northern Patagonia, I was surprised to find how little the deer 

 care for the noise of a gun. An overpoweringly strong and of- 

 fensive odour proceeds from the buck ; it is quite indescribable ; 

 several times while skinning a specimen I was almost overcome 

 by nausea. I tied up the skin in a silk pocket-handkerchief and 

 so carried it home. This handkerchief, after being well washed, 

 I continually used, and it was of course as repeatedly washed, yet 



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