300 American Deer 



deposited just about the time that deer had first reached South America, 

 and the tact that hrockets are known only from Central and South America, 

 forms a sufficient proof that the group is a comparatively modern and 

 degraded one. 



Mazama is taken as the name for the sub-genus, and hence for the 

 genus, on the authority of Dr. Merriam in the passage cited above. Sir 

 Victor Brooke rejected the earlier Subulo in favour of the later Coasst/s on 

 account of its similarity to the still earlier Subu/a. The genus Doryceros 

 was established by Fitzinger for the wood-brocket on account of the 

 absence of the tarsal gland, but since the metatarsal gland is so variable and 

 inconstant in the sub-genus Dorcelaplius, this can scarcely be regarded as a 

 character of even sub-generic value. 



Distribution. — The hottest portions of the Neotropical region. 



i. The Red Brocket — Mazama rufa 



Cervus rufus, F. Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. vol. vii. p. 127 (18 17) ; Bur- 

 meister, Dcscript. P/iys. Re'pub. Argent, vol. iii. p. 465 (1879). 



Cervus {Subulo) rufus, H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. 

 p. 140, v. p. 318 (1827) ; Goeldi, Mammferos do Brasil, p. 108 (1893). 



Subulo rufus, Jardine, Naturalist's Library — Mamm. vol. iii. p. 178 



(1835). 



(?) Subulo apura, Swainson, Classif. Quadrupeds, p. 295 (1835). 



Coassus rufus, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mas. p. 174 (1843), Gat. Ungu- 

 lata Brit. Mus. p. 238 (1852), Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 92 (1872), Hand- 

 list Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 161 (1873) ; Quelch, Zoologist, ser. 3, vol. xvii. 

 p. 19 (1893). 



Cervus [Subulo] doliehurus, Wagner, in Schreber's Saugethiere, vol. iv. 

 p. 389 (1844). 



Subulo doliehurus, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. Ixviii. part i. p. 359 

 (1873), lxxix. part i. p. 10 (1879). 



Subulo rufus, Fitzinger, op. eit. Ixviii. p. 360 (1873), lxxix. p. 11 

 (1879). 



Cariaeus rufus, Brooke, Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1878, p. 925. 



Cervus (Coassus) rufus, Ihering, Mammi/eros de S. Paulo, p. 15 (1894). 



