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27. Ccelogenys paca (Linn.). Represented by a single 

 adult male, skin and skull. 



The Lape is yearly becoming more rare in Trinidad, and will 

 soon be confined to the less accessible parts of the forests. The 

 fact that hunters in unearthing a Lape, which has been driven 

 into a hole by dogs, frequently encounter the unwelcome 

 Maperire (Crotalus], has given rise to the belief among some of 

 the negroes that the hunted Lape flees to the snake's hole for 

 protection. His passage simply arouses the reptile, which is then 

 en garde for the hunters and dogs. 



28. Cariacus (Coassus) nemorivagus (F. Cuv.). Repre- 

 sented by a skull of an adult male, presented by Mr. R. S. Row- 

 bottom, said to be the skull of one of the largest deer ever killed 

 in the vicinity of Princestown. This skull measures as follows : 

 Basal length (ant. border of premax. to post, border of occip. 

 condyles), 213 mm. ; greatest zygomatic breadth, 100; greatest 

 mastoid breadth, 66 ; length of nasals, 62 ; anterior border of 

 premaxillae to front edge of first premolar, 68.; length of molar 

 series, 67 ; length of antler from frontal bone, 109.5 ; same from 

 anterior base of the burr, 102.5 ; length of lower jaw (incisive 

 border to posterior border of angle), 172 ; height at coronoid 

 process, 83 ; height at condyle, 55.5 ; length of lower molar 

 series, 73.5. 



On the right side of this skull is the alveolus of a small upper 

 canine (diameter 3.3 mm.) ; but there is no trace of a corre- 

 sponding alveolus on the left side. 



We provisionally follow Mr. Thomas in adopting the above 

 name for the Trinidad deer, in the absense of the necessary 

 material for deciding its relations to the several allied continental 

 species. 



These Deer are among the worst enemies to young cacao 

 trees, of which they destroy thousands. Nevertheless, they are 

 protected by a recently enacted law. In view of their abun- 

 dance and the injury which they cause to agriculture it would 

 seem inadvisable to protect deer until they are so lessened in 

 numbers as not to prove the enemy of cacao growers. 



