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SIMPLE ANTLERS 



are spotted. The antlers are occasionally very simple ; in ('. riifus 

 and a few allies (placed in a special sub-genus Coassus) they are 

 simple spikes without branches. In this genus, and in the nearly 

 allied and also Xew-World Pudaa, the vomer is prolonged back- 

 wards and divides the posterior nares into two. The bulk of the 

 species are South American. 



Fig. 154. — Chilian Deer. Carmcns chilensis. x -jV. {From j\i(ti(i-e.) 



Pudua, just mentioned, comes from the Chilian Andes. It is 

 a small Deer without canines and with minute antlers. Other 

 generic names have been proposed for various species of American 

 deer. 



Hydroiwtcs inermis is a small perfectly hornless Deer, living 

 on the islands of the Yang-tse-kiang. The male has tusks : the 

 young are spotted. Though, like other deer, Hy(lro]}oUs has no 

 gall-bladder, both ^Ir. G-arrod' and Mr. Forbes^ found the rudi- 



1 Froc. Zool. Hoc. 1S77, p. 76 



" Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 



