214 Dr. J. E. Gray on the GuSniuL 



('Fauna Peruana,' Mamm. p. 241) has already recorded the 

 existence of this deer in the Andes of Peru. The horns of the 

 male specimen figured in P. Z. S. 1869, p. 497, are, in my 

 opinion, monstrous or diseased ; such distorted specimens are 

 not unfrequently met with in several species of deer. 



I am therefore of opinion that, although Dr. Gray is correct 

 in distinguishing his so-called Huamela leucotis from his Xeiie- 

 laphus anomalocera^ the former (from Patagonia and Chili) 

 should stand as Cervus chilensis, and the latter (from Peru and 

 Bolivia) as Cervus antisiensis. If a generic or subgeneric 

 name is required for these two closely allied species, Furcifer 

 of Wagner (Siiugeth. Suppl. vol. iv. p. 384, 1844) is the first 

 given, and should be employed. 



XXV. — Further Remarks on the Guemul of Patagonia 

 (Huamela leucotis). By Ur. J. E. Geay, F.R.S. &c. 



In the 'Annals' for December 1872, p. 445, 1 gave an account 

 of the skins of a male and female Gu^mul from Patagonia, 

 presented by Don Enrique Simpson, and stated that it was 

 the same animal that I had described and figured under the name 

 of Capreolus leucotis (P. Z. S. 1849, p. 64, t. xii.), which Lord 

 Derby had received from Patagonia. 



Dr. Philippi, who lives at Santiago, says that the animal I 

 figured as C. leucotis does not live in Chili, I suppose thereby 

 meaning that it cannot be the Gu^mul of Molina ; but Molina 

 refers to the animal which Captain Wallis saw at the Magellan 

 Straits, and Lord Derby's specimen was received from Magellan 

 Straits. 



The Earl of Derby in 1840 received an imperfect skin of a 

 female in thick winter fur from his brother-in-law Admiral 

 Hornby, who obtained it on the coast of Chili ; but no other 

 particulars were to be obtained about it. I thought it probable 

 that it was another specimen of Cajpreolus leucotis (Cat. Mamm., 

 Ungulata, p. 227) ; but it shows so much more white on the 

 abdomen and inner side of the legs, and appears to belong to 

 a smaller animal, that I now think that it is probably a spe- 

 cimen of the same species that we received from Mr. Whitely, 

 jun., from Tinta in the Peruvian Andes, or probably the 

 winter coat of another species. 



In 1869 we received a male, female, and fawn in summer 

 fur of a deer, which were collected by Mr. Whitely, jun., at 

 Tinta, in South Peru. As the skin of the male showed some 

 thick dark fur like the female in Lord Derby's collection. 



