Colombian Race 265 



male and female from Costa Rica in the British Museum : — " Fur brown, 

 punctulated with yellow ; forehead and crown blackish, with hair diverging 

 from a central longitudinal line ; legs gray ; tail same colour as the back 

 above, under side and tip white ; upper lip and hinder part of lower lip 

 black ; spot on sides of nostrils and lower lip white ; a narrow white streak 

 behind the brown on the nose." The antlers measured by Sir Victor 

 Brooke have a length of 7^ and a span of 8^ inches. In two skins in the 

 British Museum from Costa Rica (referred to in Gray's Catalogue of Rumi- 

 nants as C. mexicanus) the metatarsal gland and tuft, although small, are 

 distinct ; but in an example from Honduras in the same collection they are 

 totally wanting. The slight value of this organ for classificatory purposes 

 is, therefore, apparent. 



Distribution. — Central America, from Honduras through Costa Rica and 

 Nicaragua to Panama. 



i. Colombian Race — Mazama Americana gymnotis 

 Cervus gymnotis, Wiegmann, Isis, 1833, p. 965. 



(?) Cervus goudotii, Gervais and Gay, Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, vol. v. 

 p. 93 (1846) ; Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxxix. part i. p. 67 (1879). 



Cariacus gymnotis, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 921 ; Matschie, 

 Mitt, geogr. Ges. Liibeck, 1894, p. 130. 



Gymnotis wiegmanni, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxxviii. part i. 

 P- 344 (1879). 



(?) Cervus columbicus, Fitzinger, op. cit. vol. lxxix. p. 66 (1879). 



Characters. — Height nearly the same as in the last (26 inches at the 

 shoulder in the type), but the metatarsal gland and tuft wanting, the ears 

 large, drooping, and almost naked externally, the head very narrow and 

 pointed, and the general form slender and delicate. General colour of 

 pelage of upper-parts yellowish brown speckled with gray at all seasons, 

 the individual hairs being gray at the base, then brown and ochry, with 

 black tips ; a dark streak from the crown of the head along the neck ; a 

 grayish white ring round the eye ; yellowish white and brown spots on 

 the forehead, a darker spot on the nose, and a patch on the upper lip, 

 followed by a white streak reaching to the angle of the mouth ; chin 

 white, with a dark streak reaching to the lower lip, and thence extended 



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