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rhombic tuft between the horn and face. Legs without any tuft 

 on the outer sides of the metatarsus, but with a pencil on the 

 inside of the hocks. Skull with a very small, shallow, suborbital 

 pit, and supraorbital foramen in a groove. Confined to South 

 America. 



They all emit a strong odour like porcupines. They cast their 

 horns like the other Deer. 



Coassus, 1. Coassus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. 



Subulo, H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. . 1827. 



Subula, Lesson, Mamm. i. 2/3; Nov. Tab. R. A. 174. 



Subulus, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 62, 1828. 



Coassus, Gray, Med. Repos. 1821; Cat. Mamm. B. M. xxvii. 



Daguets, sp., Blainv. Desm. Mam. ii. 449, 1822. 



Cervus, sp., Renger, 343. 



* Skull face rather elongate. Suborbital pit large. 



1. COASSUS NEMORIVAGUS. The GAUZU-VIVA. 



Pale brown. The hair dirt-coloured brown, with a yellow 

 subterminal band which wears off; a paler spot over the eye. 

 Young : Brown, white spotted, spots of sides unequal. Nape dark. 



Skull elongate. Suborbital pit broad, subtrigonal, shallow. 

 Grinders moderate. Infraorbital ridge very distinct, sharp-edged. 

 Intermaxillars not reaching to the nasal, but fit into a notch in 

 the maxilla. 

 Cervus nemorivagus, F. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. vii. 485 ; Cuv. 



Oss. Foss. iv. 54. t. 5. f. 50 ; Fischer, Syn. 446. 618 ; H. Smith, 



G. A. K. iv. 142. t. ; Sundevall, Pecora, 60 ; Licht. Dargst. t.21. 

 Coassus nemorivagus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850; Mammalia, 



t. 1, t. 2. f. 1 ; List Mamm. B. M. 174 ; Cat. Ost. B. M. 64. 

 Cervus nemorum, Desm. Mamm. 446. 

 Cervus simplicicornis, Illiger, Pr. Max. Abbild. t. ; H. Smith, 



G.A.K. v. 800. t. ; R. Schomburgk, Reisen in Britisch Guiana, 



iii. 785 ; Renger, 269. 



Cervus mangivorus, SchranJc, Wett. Trans, iv. 326. 

 Cuguacu-Apara, Mar eg. Bras. vi. 235. 

 Young ! Moschus delicatulus, Shaw, Mus. Lever, t. 36. 

 Guazu-viva, Renger, 369. 

 Hob. Brazils. 



a, b. Females. Brazils. 



c. Young, with a distinct line of white spots on middle of the 

 back ; sides spotted. Brazils. 



Tragulus Surinamensis, Klein. Moschus Americanus, Erxl. 

 M. delicatulus, Shaw, Mus. Lever, t. 36; Seba, i. t. 44. f. 2. 



d. Male, adult. Brazils. 



