286 



American Deer 



Length along 

 Outer Curve. 



Basal 

 Circumference. 



Tip to Ti 



p. Widest inside. 



Number of 

 Points. 



- i 



2 4i 



5 



i 6 



1 8 



5-5 



2 7 A 



8 



26 



2 c 

 j 



c-c 



2 3* 



5i 







4-5 





6 



? 





12 



22f 





20 



20A 



5-5 



2 2 § 



si 



25 





28 



2l| 



5 





16 



5-5 



Distribution. 



— In suitable 



localities 



throughout Brazil, 



and perhaps 



of Guiana, through Paraguay, Entre Rios and Uruguay to the Chaco, or 



I 



i hi 



Fig. 75. — Malformed Antlers of Marsh-Deer. (Rowland Ward, Records of Big Gnme.) 



wooded interior districts of Argentina. According to Admiral Kennedy, 

 the species is, however, now very rare in Uruguay and Entre Rios. It is 

 abundant in the neighbourhood of Matto-Grosso, Brazil. Its fossilised 

 remains occur in the superficial deposits of the Argentine pampas ; the 

 antlers from these formations described under the name of Paraceros appar- 

 ently belonging either to the present or a closely allied form. 



With regard to the adoption of the name dichotoma, instead of the 

 usually accepted paludosa, it may be mentioned that although Illiger gives 

 no description of the animal he designates by the former name, yet as he 

 refers to the gouzoupoucou of Azara, which is the present species, his 

 name is entitled to stand. 



