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THE PAMPAS DEER 



(Cariacus campestris) 



The Pampas Deer is a small species, light brown in colour, and with 

 three-pointed antlers in the back. This is one of the few open-country 

 Deer, inhabiting the grassy plains found in some parts of Brazil and 

 ranging south over the Argentine Pampas to Patagonia. It is chiefly 

 remarkable for the extremely strong nauseating smell emitted by the 

 buck, which is said to be perceptible a mile off, so that he would appear 

 to be worse than the Skunk as a scent-diffuser. 



THE HUEMUL 



(Xenelaphus bisulcus) 



The Huemul is a smaller and stouter-built animal than the Fallow- 

 Deer, brown in colour, with the buck's horns showing two nearly equal 

 spikes only ; it ranges along the mountains of South America from 

 Chili to Patagonia, and sometimes comes out on the plains. Where it 

 has not met with men, it is extraordinarily tame ; Mr. Hesketh Prichard, 

 in his book on Patagonia, mentions a case in which a doe came up 

 and smelt him, and her mate made as if to turn him over with his 

 horns. 



THE BROCKETS 



The Brockets are a number of small species of Deer from Central 

 and South America, in which the horns are reduced to short single 

 spikes ; their tails are very short also. The best known is the Red 

 Brocket of Brazil {Cariacus rufus), which has been often exhibited at 

 the London Zoological Gardens ; this is also the largest, but is not 

 much over two feet at the shoulder. It is a solitary animal, frequenting 

 either forest or grassy plains, and very destructive to crops. 



THE PUDUS 



The Pudus (Pudua) are very like the Brockets, but still smaller and 

 with shorter horns. They inhabit Western South America, and the 

 Chilian Pudu is the smallest Deer known, being little more than a 

 foot at the shoulder. The only other kind, found in Ecuador (Pudua 



