1869. ] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE ROEBUCK OF PERU. 497 
men described by MM. Gay and Gervais ; and finding the animal to 
agree in size, colour, and kind of fur with the Roebuck of Europe, 
I described and figured it in the ‘ Proceedings’ of this Society for 
that year under the name of Capreolus leucotis* ; and in the ‘ Pro- 
ceedings’ of the Society for the next year, and in my ‘Catalogue of 
the Two-hoofed Quadrupeds in the British Museum,’ p- 227, I re- 
garded it as a species of Furcifer; under the name of F. huamel. 
In this work there are references to all these synonyms and to 
where they are mentioned. 
Horns of Venelaphus huamel, 3. 
Mr. Whitely, junior, has just sent from Tinta, in South Peru, to 
the British Museum a perfect male, female, and fawn of this species, 
and some skulls of the female, which prove that I was right in 
regarding the Cervus chilensis of Gay and my Capreolus leucotis as 
different stages of the same species. Those now received agree with 
Gay’s description of the young animal in the Paris Museum, and 
are in the yellow state of the fur; but the female exhibits in the 
* See P. Z. S. 1849, p. 64, Mamm. ft. ix. 
