216 Dr. J. E, Gray on the OuSmul, 



In the first edition (p. 322) he says it lives on the less steep 

 rocks of the Andes ; in the second edition (p. 262), it is a rare 

 wild animal which inhabits Chili. It is seldom seen except on 

 the precipices and rocks of the Cordilleras, and rarely descends 

 to the lower valleys ; so the hunter considers himself fortunate 

 who manages to surprise one. In both editions he observes 

 this is the unnamed animal which Capt, Wallis says he saw 

 in passing the Straits of Magellan (p. 321). 



This account has been a fertile source of en-ors, and perhaps 

 he confused two animals in it ; but at any rate I have no 

 doubt that the animal I described as Capreolus leucotis from 

 Magellan Straits is the one mentioned by Captain Wallis. 



Molina himself thought the Guemul was a horse, and called 

 it Equus bisulcusy but he has left this name out in the second 

 edition. It is referred to Auchenia by Col. Hamilton Smith, 

 to Camelus by Leuckart and Treviranus,and made into a genus, 

 under the name of Hij^pocamelus, by Leuckart, and Cerveqims 

 by Lesson, and is mentioned as a new genus without a name 

 by Gay ; and MM. Gay and Gervais, in the 'Ann. Sci. Nat.' 

 1846, p. 91, thought it was Cervus cMlensts', but Dr. Philippi 

 (in Wiegm. Archiv, 1870) says that Gay's animal is the same 

 as Cervus antisiensis of D'Orbigny (Voy. d. Amdr. m^rid. 

 tom. XX.), the Furcifer antisiensis of my 'Catalogue of Rumi- 

 nant Mammalia in B. M.' (8vo, 1872, p. 88). 



According to Gay, the Guemul is Furcifer antisiensis from 

 Bolivia and Peru ; this may be the Chilian animal which 

 Molina confounded with the Magellan- Straits one. I thought 

 it might be the Xenelajjhus anomalocera, which is also a 

 Peruvian animal ; and now we have identified Wallis's 

 Magellan- Straits animal as Huamela leucotis. 



It is impossible to use any of the generic names given to 

 Molina's Guemul, because they all convey a false impression 

 as to the relationship of the animal ; one is not sure whether 

 they belong to the Chilian or Patagonian genus, or, in fact, a 

 combination of both. 



The Gudmul or Huamel is mentioned in Viduare's 'Chil. 

 Reiseb.' published in Hamburg in 1782 ; but I have not been 

 able to lay my hands on it. Is it the animal mentioned by 

 Molina ? 



"Guemul, q, du Chili, qui ne pent ^tre le Poco," appears in 

 Ray's 'Zoologie Universelle et Portative' (Paris, 1787) ; but 

 there is no such word as ''Poco " in his dictionary. Perhaps 

 he means " Paco," a name which occurs under "Lama," 

 p. 300. 



Fischer in his ' Synopsis,' p. 433, puts in Equus hisidcus of 

 Molina, the cloven-footed horse of Shaw's 'Zoology' (ii. p. 441), 



