238 MAMMALIA. 



ANAT. 



C. nemorivagus, Cuvier, Oss, Foss. iv. 54. t. 5. f. 50. 

 <?,/. Skull. Brazils. 



Var. 1. Dark brown. Streak on each side of the forehead, upper 

 part of the legs, and spot on the angle of the lower lip, black- 

 ish ; streak over the eye yellowish. Under lip, a spot on upper 

 lip near muzzle, under side of tail, and inner side of the upper 

 part of the thighs, white. Muffle smooth, black, with the 

 upper edge slightly arched. Ears small, lower half of the inner 

 side black. Size of a full-grown Roebuck. 



Coassus nemorivagus, var. a, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, t. , 

 male. 



Hab. Brazil; Knowsley Menag. 



Var. 2. Female. " Dark grey, tinged with brown, greyer on the 

 head and neck; the lower part, and the inside of legs, the 

 belly, and round the eyes, rust- coloured ; the purple brown 

 patch in the ears smaller and less distinct than in C. rufus. A 

 small white stripe in front of the eyes, and the under surface 

 of the tail white. From the eyes to the nose short and thick 

 compared with the other specimens. A female." Frazer, MSS. 



Coassus nemorivagus var., Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, t. , & 

 t. . f. . 



** Skull face short, broad. Suborbital pit small. 



2. COASSUS RUFUS. The CUGUACU-ETE or PITA. 



The fur bright shining red. Crown and neck, sides of face and 

 chest, paler. Muffle carunculated, rather angularly produced 

 above. 



Skull: infraorbital pit triangular, small, slightly impressed. 

 Intermaxillary scarcely reaching to the skull, elongate. Nasal 

 bone only slightly dilated behind. Supraorbital foramen large, 

 in a deep groove. Grinders moderate. Cutting-teeth very nar- 

 row, two central much dilated. 



Young : Reddish, white spotted, spots of sides unequal. Nape 

 with a distinct, white-edged, dark central streak. 



Var. with white rings above the hoofs. 



Cervus rufus, 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.; Fischer, Syn. 446, 618; Licht. Darst. t. 20; Sunde- 



vall, Pecora, 60 ; R. Schomburgk, Reisen in Britisch Guiana, 



784; Pr. Max. Abbild. t.; Renger, 356. 

 Coassus rufus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 174; Cat. Osteol. Sp. 



