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market. In one of his letters, dated 19th May, 1846, 

 I find tlie following note. " Mr. Russell, barrister at 

 Law, informs me that Mr. Townshend, a bordering 

 proprietor on the uplands in which the Guazu-pita 

 were turned out to establish themselves, has the 

 antlers of the Deer killed some five years ago. Mr. 

 Townshend himself ran down this buck with his 

 dogs, having started it in a morning's stroll through 

 his woodlands. The last batch of Deer were intro- 

 duced thirty years ago by a Colonel Harrison at the 

 Farm. Mr. Russell recollects as many as eight 

 quarters of venison in the market at one time. There 

 seems every reason to conclude that a colony still in- 

 habits the impervious mountain-forests above the 

 Caymanas Plain." 



A few days after the above was written, Mr. Hill 

 favoured me with the following note on the subject. 

 " 5th June, 1846. When your letter came to hand, 

 announcing your arrangements for an immediate 

 departure for Europe, knowing how important it was 

 that you should early complete your notes of the 

 Mammalian Fertebrata, I walked as far as Mr. 

 Townshend's pen, and made the accompanying 

 sketches of the Horn of the Guazu-pita Deer. I 

 learnt from him a number of interesting particulars 

 respecting the existence of these animals in the ad- 

 joining woodlands. I find that their number, if not 

 considerable, are not a few ; — that they are frequently 

 seen in herds of several together, and that fifteen 

 were surprised in the forest not more than two years 

 ago, at wliich time a negro labourer of Waterloo pen, 

 close by, a property of the Townshend family, brought 



