226 MAMMALIA. 



every time, for a space of one year and seven months, when first 

 unfolded I distinctly perceived the odour. Frequently when 

 passing at the distance of half a mile to the leeward of a herd, I 

 have perceived the whole air tainted with the effluvium. I be- 

 lieve the smell from the buck is most powerful at the period 

 when its horns are perfect and free from the hairy skin ; when 

 in this state the meat is of course quite uneatable, but the Gau- 

 chos assert, that if buried for some time in fresh earth the taint 

 is removed. Darwin, Journal, 49. 



A skull at Haslar has the horns of one side normal, on the 

 other (the left one) with the front lower branch elongated and 

 forked. 



The figures of C. campestris in F. Cuvier, Man. Lithog., is 

 evidently a Cariacus, and not of this genus. 



3. FURCIFER. 



Horns erect, forked, without any basal snag. Ears narrow, 

 acute. Tail short. Fur consisting of thick, rather brittle, waved 

 hairs. Skull with a moderate suborbital pit. There is a distinct 

 parcel of hairs on the inside of the hock, but none on the outer 

 side of the metatarsus. Confined to South America. 



They differ from Capreolus in wanting the tuft of hair on the 

 outer side of the hind tarsus. 



Cervus, Furcifer, part., Sundevall, Pecora, 60. 



Furcifer, part., Gray, Knowsley Menag.; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. 



Cervus Mazama, sp., H. Smith, G. A. K. 



Mazama, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. xxvii., not Rqfinesque. 



Cariacus, sp., Lesson, N. Tab. R. A. 173. 



Chevreuil du nouveau continent (sp.), Blainv. Desm. Mam. ii. 



448, 1822. 



Cervus, sp., D'Orb. Voy. Amer. Merid. 

 Hippocamelus, LeucJcart, de Equo Bisulco, 1816. 

 Camelus, sp., Leuckart. 

 Cervequus, Lesson, Nov. Tab. R. A. 

 Capreolus, sp., Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Equus, sp., Molina, Chili, 520; Fischer, Syn. 430; Shaw, 



Zool. 

 Auchenia, sp., H. Smith in Griffith A. K. v. 764. 



1. FURCIFER ANTISIENSIS. The TARUSH or TARUGA. 



Yellow grey. Hairs rigid, quilled, brown, with a yellow sub- 

 terminal ring. Edge of muffle and throat white. Face with a 

 brown longitudinal streak and a lunate band between the eyes. 

 The hoofs rather broad, worn in front. 



