134 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



found in the most remote north-western territories of the 

 United States, and from the context of this description it 

 appears evident, that the Guazupuco Deer is nearest allied 

 to it, and that the Guazuti and the Virginian are clearly of 

 the same group. 



Long-tailed Deer. (Cervus Macrourus.) Also named 

 Black-tailed Deer, and deer with a large tail, from the pe- 

 culiar large size and contrasted colours of that organ. This 

 animal is described in Le Raye's MS. Journal, as larger 

 than the Red-deer, of a darker colour, with a white belly ; 

 the horns short, small, somewhat flattened ; the tail nearly 

 eighteen inches long, black above, with broad white edges, 

 and held up erect while running. It abounds about the 

 Kansas river in Central North America. 



Guazupuco Deer. (Cervus Paludosus.) This animal is 

 described by M, D'Azara as having horns rather large and 

 cylindrical, terminated by a fork, with an anterior antler 

 some way up the beam, simple or bifurcated, pointing for- 

 wards, and then vertical ; his muzzle is large, figured like 

 that of an ox ; the eyes large and full, with a lachrymal fold 

 beneath ; the forehead below the horns flat ; the ears ter- 

 minating in a point ; the pedicles of the horns are one inch 

 high, and the horns about one foot four inches in length, 

 with never more than five snags ; mammae four, disposed in 

 a quadrangle ; the eye-lashes black, surrounded with white, 

 which passes on the side of the face, and surrounds the 

 muzzle and mouth ; a black velvety spot in the angle of 

 the lower lip, another facing the nose on the upper ; a black 

 triangular one on the nose, and another between the eyes, 

 united by a dark line between them. Inside of the ears, 

 under-jaw, and cheek, white ; a black spot on the interval 

 of the hoofs of all the feet, ascending to the second joint ; 

 a black band passing along the breast, and on the under 

 (upper) part of the tail. In size this animal is at least 

 equal to the Stag of Europe, being four feet at the shoul- 



