Pampas Deer 287 



Habits. — According to Dr. Goeldi, the veado galheiro inhabits the 

 thick jungles on the borders of the great Brazilian rivers, where it goes 

 about in small parties of from three to five individuals. During the day it 

 lies hidden in the rank vegetation, issuing forth to feed about sunset, and 

 remaining abroad till after sunrise ; its food consisting of reeds and various 

 other aquatic plants. Its sense of smell and hearing being very acute, and 

 its flight rapid, this deer is difficult to stalk. The hind produces a single 

 fawn annually, which after four or five days is able to run by the side of 

 its dam. If taken young it can be easily tamed, but its constitution is very 

 delicate. Although its flesh is only eaten where other food cannot be 

 obtained, its skin is largely used for leather by the natives. 



2. The Pampas Deer — Mazama bezoartica 



Cervus bezoarticus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 67 (1766). 



Cervus campestris, F. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. vol. vii. p. 484 (18 17) ; 

 Burmeister, Descript. Phys. Repub. Argent, vol. iii. p. 463 (1879) ; Goeldi, 

 Mammiferos do Brasil, p. 107 (1893). 



Cervus leucogaster, Schreber, Saugethiere, vol. v. p. 1 127 (18 17). 



Cervus {Mazama) campestris, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 

 vol. iv. p. 136, v. p. 317 (1827). 



Cervus azara, Wiegmann, Isis, 1833, p. 954. 1 



Mazama campestris, Jardine, Naturalist's Library — Mamm. vol. iii. p. 174 

 (1835) > Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 176 (1843). 



Dorce/ap/ius campestris, Gloger, Handbuch Naturgeschichte, p. 140 

 (1841). 



Cariacus campestris, Lesson, Nouv. Table Hist. Nat. p. 173 (1842); 

 Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 923 ; Aplin, ibid. 1894, p. 313 ; Ward, 

 Records of Big Game, p. 59 (1896). 



Cervus (Elaphus Blastocerus) campestris, Wagner, Schreber's Sdugetliiere, 

 vol. iv. p. 369 (1844). 



Cervus (Elaplius Blastocerus) comosus, Wagner, op. cit. p. 368 (1844). 



Furcifer campestris, Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 68 (1850). 



Blastocerus campestris, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 237, Cat. Ungulata 



1 The original description is stated to be in a work entitled Abbildungen merkzeurd. S'dugetkiere 

 (p. 69), very few copies of which appear to have been published. 



