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B. Lachrymal pits shallower. 



a. Colour rufous, white below. 

 a' . Hair of withers reversed. 



a''. Premaxillae articulating with nasals; 

 skull longer. 

 a?. Face not markedly dark, without 



eyebrow-streak M. amcricana. 



b^. Face markedly dark, with eyebrow- 

 streak M. auperciliaris. 



b". Premaxillfe not articulating with nasals; 



skull shorter M. zetta. 



V. Hair of withers not reversed M. sheila. 



c'. Hair of withers either normal or reversed, 

 size small, face and limbs shaded with 

 bluish black M.tenui. 



b. Colour brown to whitish grey. 



V. Colour pale pepper-and-salt brown to 



whitish grey, size larger M. simjplicicornis. 



c'. Colour dark brown tinged with rufous, 



size very small M. nana. 



c. Colour drab-brown, tail fulvous M. pandora. 



I. MAZAMA AMERICANA. 



Moschus americanus, Erxleben, Syst. Begn. Anim. vol. i, p. 324, 1777. 



Cervus rufus, IlUger. Abh. Ale. Sci. Berlin, 1811, p. 108, 1815 ; * 

 Desmarest, Mammalogie, vol. ii, p. 245, 1822 ; H. Smith, 

 Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 140, 1827 ; Tschudi, 

 Fauna Peruv. vol. i, p. 236, 1844; F. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. 

 vol. vii, p. 127, 1817 ; Burmeister, Descript. Phys. Repub. 

 Argent, vol. iii, p. 465, 1879. 



Mazama pita, Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag. vol. i, p. 363, 1817. 



Cervus (Subulo) rufus, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v, 

 p. 818, 1827 ; Qoeldi, Mammiferos do Brasil, p. 108, 1898. 



Subulo rufus, Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. iii, p. 178, 1835. 



(?) Subulo apura, Swainson, Classif. Quadrupeds, p. 295, 1835. 



Coassus rufus. Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 174, 1848, Knowsley 

 Menagerie, p. 69, pi. xlvii, 1850, Cat. TJngulata Brit. Mus. p. 238, 

 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 92, 1872, Hand-List Rumi- 

 nants Brit. Mus. p. 161, 1878 ; Quelch, Zoologist, ser. 8, vol. xvii, 

 p. 19, 1893. 



Cer\Tis (Subulo) doliohurus, Wagner, Schreber's SdugtJiiere, Suppl. 

 vol. iv, p. 389, 1844. 



Homelaphus inornatus. Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 90, 1872. 



Coassus inornatus, Gray, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 162, 

 1873. 



Subulo dolichurus, Fitzinger, Sitzher. Tc. AJc. Wiss, Wien, vol. Ixviii, 

 pt. 1, p. 359, 1873, vol. Ixxix, pt. 1, p. 11, 1879. 



Separate copies stated to have been issued in 1811. 



