138 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



They were certainly very different in figure and markings 

 from the preceding; the horns not more than eight inches 

 long, somewhat vertical, rugous at base, with a small 

 antler not above an inch in height, rising vertically at a 

 short distance up the anterior part of the beam, which at 

 the insertion of the antler, bent back, and then, being slightly 

 flattened, turned inwards and forwards in a slightly unci- 

 nated bend, throwing off a posterior short snag, which con- 

 stituted a bifurcation ; the Buck and Does were nearly of 

 the same size and colours ; the head rather round, not so 

 prolonged as in Guasuti, and the body longer than the Roe- 

 buck, about twenty-eight inches high at the shoulders, and 

 thirty at the croup ; the neck, shoulders, sides, and back, 

 were of a yellowish- brown gray ; the inferior part of the 

 belly, edge of the buttocks, and under tail, white ; the face 

 darker brown-gray, leaving the region round the nose, lips, 

 and chin, likewise white, with a black spot on the nose, 

 one at each side of the mouth on the upper lip, and one at 

 the corner of the lower lip ; the space round the orbits and 

 cheeks, dun, with a little whitish-fawn behind the eye; the 

 ears moderately long and pointed were brown-gray outside 

 and whitish-gray inside ; the eyes full, dark, and soft, with a 

 small suborbital fold beneath ; the muzzle small, round, and 

 black : from the knees downward to the fetlock was a dark 

 streak, but the rest of the limbs ochery ; and the tail, about 

 four inches long, was dusky above, without any long white 

 hair at the edges # . 



While engaged in making the sketch, they were fed with 

 bread, and the Buck jealous of the Does sharing the dainty, 

 shewed his propensity to leap, for he drove them off by but- 

 ting them, the head turned sideways, not unlike a goat in 



* A female which we had occasion to observe daily for a long 

 time in a domestic state, at Spanish Town, Jamaica, came from 

 Honduras, and was in every respect similar to the above. It would 

 steal bread from the table of Sir George Nugent, the Governor. 



