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speckled yellowish gray-brown appearance ; the flanks, head, and forehead 

 speckled brownish white ; the individual hairs are whitish at the root, then 

 ringed with brownish, followed by yellowish white, and terminating in a 

 black tip, but on the sides of the head and forehead the tips are white. A 

 dark median line running down the forehead to the tip of the nose ; under 

 surface of lower jaw, throat, part of fore-neck, lower neck, hinder portion 

 of abdomen, and inner sides of buttocks and limbs white ; chest and under- 

 pays uniform brownish, darker than the back ; lower part of limbs 

 yellowish gray-brown externally ; tail with a narrow brown and white 

 streak along the middle of the terminal portion of the upper surface, at the 

 base, sides, lower surface, and tip white; ears grayish - brown externally, 

 with a grayish-white heart-shaped spot at the base. Tarsal tuft dark 

 blackish brown. Female smaller and darker than the male. In the 

 specimen shown in plate xxiii the under surface of the tail is as described 

 above, but in a second skin in the Museum it is chestnut-brown. 



Distribution. — Andes of Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Northern Chili, 

 usually at heights of between 14,000 and 16,000 feet above the sea-level, 

 but probably ranging down to 11,000 feet. In Ecuador abundant on 

 Chimborazo, Pechincha, and Cotopaxi. 



2. The Chilian Guemal — Mazama bisulca 



JLquus bisulcus, Molina, Saggio Storia Nat. Chili, p. 320 (1782). 



Hippocamelus dubius, Leuckart, De Equo bisulco Molina, p. 24 (18 16), 

 Lis, 1825, p. 362. 



Auchenia huamel, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v. p. 764 

 (1827). 



Cervequus andicus, Lesson, Nouv. Tab/. Hist. Nat. p. 173 (1842). 



Cervus chilensis, Gay and Gervais, Ann. Set. Nat. 1846, p. 91 ; Sclater, 

 Proc. Zoo/. Hoc. 1875, p. 45 ; Burmeister, Descript. Pliys. Repub. Argent, vol. 

 iii. p. 462 (1879). 



Capreolus leucotis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, P- ^4- 



Furcifer liuamel, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 236, Cat. Ungulata 

 Brit. Mas. p. 227 (1852). 



Furcifer antisiensis, Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 226 (1852), Cat. 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 88 (1872). 



