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ders, and four feet four inches at the croup ; the general 

 colour of the neck, back, shoulders, and rump, is reddish- 

 bay; the tail is middle-sized, and the teeth have the inter- 

 mediate incisors large. 



The females are less than the Buck, without black on the 

 breast; the fawns are without livery or spots, being of an 

 uniform dun colour : albinism is not uncommon in the 

 species. The colours of the fur do not change with the 

 seasons, nor do the horns drop at fixed periods, individuals 

 having been found with theirs in full growth, while others 

 were without. This assertion of M. D'Azara is singular, 

 for it would imply that the rutting period is likewise unde- 

 termined, and this must nevertheless be in harmony with 

 the time of parturition in the Does, which in its turn can- 

 not be during the inundations caused by the rainy season, 

 nor even immediately after, because they inhabit the 

 swampy regions of South America, particularly of Paraguay, 

 where they reside among the shrubs and bushes, where the 

 amomiae or bastard ginger abound. 



A living specimen shewn in London evidently belonged to 

 this species. It was somewhat less than the stature here 

 given ; the muzzle was not unusually broad, though very con- 

 spicuous, and the markings on the face, cheeks, and feet, 

 similar : the horns checked, most likely in their growth 

 during the sea-voyage, stood rather approximating, and 

 were reclined and bent outwards, with a small antler a 

 short way up the beam ; from hence their direction, though 

 rather irregular, was chiefly with the concave parts to the 

 front and side. One had three terminal snags, the other 

 only a fork ; but the principal difference arose from a great 

 quantity of long silvery hair on the lower abdomen, ex- 

 tending from the prepuce between the thighs, and passing 

 up the root of the tail, and from thence lining each side of 

 it to the point : as the animal carried it erect, this long 

 white fringe gave him a very singular appearance he was 



