240 MAMMALIA. 



There is a female of this species in the Gardens of the So- 

 ciety ; it greatly resembles the Indian Muntjac in the distribu- 

 tion of its colour. 



In the British Museum there are two skulls which belong to 

 the species of this division. They have the face shorter and 

 thicker than the skull of C. nemorivagus, and the nasals are wider 

 behind; the suborbital pit small or less compressed, and the 

 grinders larger. The first belongs to a young specimen in the 

 Museum Collection apparently of C. rufus-, it has a small, slightly 

 impressed pit just in front of the edge of the orbit. The second 

 belongs to a more adult female, without any skin, sent from Para 

 by Mr. Reginald Graham ; it is considerably larger than the pre- 

 ceding, and there is scarcely any visible impression in front of 

 the orbit, only a slight concavity of the general surface. 



Cervus nanus, Lund; Lesson, N. Tab. R. A. 173, 1842 (not 



described?). 

 Hob. Brazils. May be one of the preceding. 



6. PUDU. 



Horns simple, rudimentary, shelving backwards. Ears rounded, 

 thickly covered with short hair. Head short ; facial line convex. 

 The crown with a tuft of long hair. Crumen distinct. Fur short. 

 Legs with a tuft of hair on the inside of the hocks, without any 

 tuft on the outer side of the tarsus. Tail short. Skull short, 

 high. Infraorbital impression oblong, very deep. Nasal bones 

 much dilated behind on side of nose. Intermaxillary short, not 

 reaching near to the nasal. Cutting-teeth rather narrow, two 

 central rather dilated. Grinders very large. Supraorbital fora- 

 men small, scarcely forming a groove. Confined to the west 

 coast of America. 



Coassus, 2. Pudu, Gray, Proc. Zool Soc. 1850. 

 Cervus, sp., Bennett. 

 C. Capreolus, sp., Lesson. 

 Capra, sp., Molina. 

 Antilope, sp., Blainville. 

 Antilocapra, sp., Lesson. 



1. PUDU HUMILIS. The VENADA. 



Brown black and pale grisled. Neck blackish brown, punctu- 

 lated with white. Lips, orbit, ears, legs, and under part of body, 

 bright pale bay. Throat and inner side of thighs paler. Hair of 

 back with a broad, blackish, subterminal band and pale brown 



