Guemals 



^95 



applied to a specimen with abnormal antlers, this affords no reason for its 

 rejection, and Fitzinger's creation of Creagoceros is therefore quite 

 superfluous. 



Distribution. — Western and southern portions of the Neotropical region. 



i. The Peruvian Guemal — Mazama antisiensis 



Cervus antisiensis, D'Orbigny, Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. iii. p. 91 (1834) ; 

 Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 46 ; Matschie, SB. Ges. nat. Berlin, 1894, 

 p. 63. 



Cervus [Flaphus Furcifer) antisiensis, Wagner, Schreber's Sdugethiere, vol. 

 iv. p. 384 (1844). 



Cervus [Furcifer) antisiensis, Sundevall, K. Vet. Ak. Hand/, for 1844, 

 p. 183 (1846). 



Anomalocera huamel, Gray, Scientific Opinion, 1869, p. 384. 



Xenelaphus huamel, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 497. 



Xenelaphus leucotis, Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 89 (1872). 



Xenelaphus anomalocera, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. x. 

 p. 445 (1872). 



Xenelaphus c hi lens is, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xii. p. 61 

 (1873), Hand-list Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 159 (1873). 



Creagoceros antisiensis, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Berlin, vol. lxviii. part i. 



P- 35 8 ( l8 73) ; lxviii. part i. p. 369 (1879). 



Furcifer chilensis, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xiii. p. 332 



(l8?4) \ 



Cariacus antisiensis, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 924 ; Schaft, Zool. 

 Garten, vol. xxxi. p. 226 (1890). 



Furcifer antisensis, Nehring, SB. Ges. nat. Berlin, 1895, p. 9. 



Plate XXIII 



Characters. — Size somewhat less than that of the Virginian deer. 

 Build rather stout and heavy ; ears long, narrow, and sharply pointed, well 

 haired on both sides, and the hair at the base on both surfaces elongated ; 

 hair short, thick, rough, and brittle, longest between the ears, on the fore- 

 head, and on the tail. Pelage of upper -parts and outer side of limbs 

 coloured a mixture of brown and yellowish white, so as to give a general 



