214 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



SEDIS. 



1. Coassus auritus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 242, Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist. ser. 2, vol. ix, p. 432, 1852, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. 



p. 239, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 92, 1872 ; nee 



Cervus auritus, Desmarest. 

 Cervus (Subulo) auritus, Wagner, Schreber's SaugtJiiere, Suppl. 



vol. v, p. 336, 1855. 

 Subulo auritus, Fitzinger, Sitzber. ~k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixviii, 



pt. 1, p. 360, 1873, vol. Ixxix, pt. 1, p. 19, 1879. 

 Mazarna aurita, LydekJcer, Deer of All Lands, p. 306, 1898. 



Named from a Brazilian (?) skin, now lost ; possibly the 

 female of M. americana. 



2. Mazama rondoni, Ribeiro, Comm. Linhas Telegr. de Matto Grosso 

 ao Amazonias, Annex 5, Hist. Nat., Mammiferos (Rio de Janeiro), 

 p. 33, 1914. 



Typified by a male skin and female skeleton from 

 Poaya, Amazonia, in the Museum at Bio de Janeiro. 

 .Dimensions are given, and the colour is said to be dark, but 

 the description is otherwise insufficient. 



XL Genus PUDU. 



Pudu, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 242, Cat. Ruminants Brit. 



Mus. p. 92, 1872 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 967. 

 Nanelaphus, Fitzinger, Sitzber. h. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixviii, pt. 1, 



p. 360, 1873, vol. Ixxix, pt. 1, p. 31, 1879, partim. 



Pudua, Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 18 ; Broolce, ibid. 1878, 

 p. 296 ; de Winton, ibid. 1896, p. 508 ; LydekJcer, Deer of All 

 Lands, p. 307, 1898. 



Skull and metacarpals generally as in Mazama ; size 

 very small ; coat coarse and brittle ; antlers in the form of 

 short, simple spikes ; cannon-bones very short ; tail short or 

 wanting; hair of forehead either reversed or directed uni- 

 formly backwards from muzzle to crown ; ears large and 

 rounded; face-glands present or absent; naked portion of 

 muzzle variable ; tarsal, metatarsal and interdigital glands 

 absent ; upper canines wanting ; external cuneiform of tarsus 

 united with naviculo-cuboid. 



The genus includes two species one from the highlands 

 of Chile and the other from those of Ecuador severally 



