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LAND MAMMALS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE 



{Blastoceros paludosus) of eastern South America, which has 

 short, stout antlers, each beam with two double bifurcations ; 

 there are other species of the same genus, such as the Pampas 

 Deer of Argentina {B. bezoarticus) . In the Andes of Peru and 

 Chili and the forests of western Patagonia are two species 

 of a genus which bears the preposterous name of Hippocamelus 



Fig. 101. — Marsh Deer (Blastoceros paludosus), female. — By permission of the 

 N.Y. Zoolog. Soc. 



and in which the antlers are simply forked. The vernacular 

 name of these animals is "Huemul." Peculiarly Neotropical 

 are the Uttle brockets, which hardly exceed a height of two 

 feet at the shoulder, with simple spike-like antlers not more 

 than three inches long ; the genus, Mazama, has several species, 

 one of which occurs as far north as the state of Puebla in Mexico. 

 "The smallest of all deer is the Chilian pudu {Pudua pudu), 



