SOUTH AMERICAN DEER 
in the drier and more open parts of Ecuador and Colombia, 
occurs an allied species with large, flapping ears, of which 
the outer surface is naked. The borders of the great Tropical 
rivers that unite to form the Parana and La Plata are Dee 
the home of the larger “‘guazu,” or marsh deer, so called from 
its predilection for morasses and its fondness for wallowing in 
mud; its antlers are long but only twice forked. Smaller, 
and with still more simple antlers, are the “guazuti,” or pampas 
deer, common all over the grassy plains of southern South Amer- 
ica, and possessed of many interesting peculiarities, while con- 
forming in general to the family manner of life.* They lie 
concealed during the day in the tall, 
feathery pampas grass, and come out 
to feed at night. The antlers are 
very straight when seen in profile, 
with two prongs on the front of each 
horn. In the Andes occur two other 
deer, the ‘‘guemals,” of medium size, CHILEAN PuDu, 
provided with tusks, and having antlers with a single fork, of 
which the front one is the longer and projects straight forward ; 
one kind is numerous in southern Chile, and the other in the 
highlands of Peru. 
In Central America the little Costa Rican deer’ is a well- 
separated form with spikelike antlers, which seems to connect 
the foregoing group with the fine South American brockets— 
a section distinguished by short, unbranched antlers, naked - 
muzzles, and other specialties. There are four kinds, the 
largest about twenty-seven inches high at the shoulders, and the 
smallest only nineteen inches, which are denizens of the forest 
glades of Brazil and the northern coast countries, go about only 
in pairs, apparently mated for life, and furnish good sport and 
toothsome venison. The list closes with a remarkable little deer, 
the “pudu” of the Chilean Andes, which is scarcely larger than 
a hare, is reddish brown, and has a curiously short and rounded 
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