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having omitted to give a figure, and substituted instead one 

 of the Stag of Europe, naturalists were unable to compre- 

 hend them. Fortunately the original collection of the 

 drawings made by the Prince of Nassau, or by his orders, 

 with MS. notes in his hand, and in that of both the above 

 naturalists, is still in the Berlin Library, and there we 

 find a good representation of the female in a nearly adult 

 state. The colours are the same, excepting that the ears 

 are nearly transparent, and the head and neck dark ashy, 

 with a little white on the throat. This ashy tone we found 

 still about the eyes of the adults, and we infer that this 

 colour disappears from the head and neck when the animal 

 is full grown. It is probable that this species resides more 

 in the uplands, and in more open ground*. 



The Bira Brocket. (Cervus Nemorivagus.) This species 

 has been confounded with the preceding, though it is still 

 smaller, being only eighteen inches at the shoulder, and the 

 aspect and colours of the animal are very different. Azara 

 describes it as having the head more like a lamb ; the tip 

 of the ear is rather round, lachrymary sinus very small ; the 

 horns straight, reclined, smooth, solid, and pointed, having 

 a diameter of seven lines, and one or two inches in length ; 

 the coat is of a gray-brown, the hair being brown with 

 yellowish-white points ; some white on the breast, lips, 

 and chin ; the belly, interior as well as anterior and pos- 

 terior part of the fore-legs, and the whole from the knee to 

 the hoof, and a space round the eyes, of a buff-coloured 



* Professor Lichenstein, to whose kindness I owe the facilities I 

 enjoyed of drawing and copying zoological subjects both in the 

 Berlin Museum and from the above-quoted collection, regarded the 

 Gouzouapara and the figure as of the female of Azara's Gouazouti, 

 C. Campestris ; but the Paris and Prince Maxmilian's specimens 

 prove the mistake. See his paper in the Berlin Transactions, 

 1815. Die Werke von Piso und Markgrave uber die Natur Ges- 

 chichle Braziliens erlauter, fyc. 



