306 American Deer 



uniformly dark brown with a tinge of reddish ; under-parts lighter ; tail 

 coloured like the back above, white below and at the tip ; a small white 

 spot beneath each eye ; lips white, the upper one becoming dirty white 

 near the muzzle ; ears externally dark brown, internally bluish white ; 

 tarsal tuft white. 



This species is the type of Fitzinger's genus Nanelaphus, in which the 

 Chilian pudu was also included. In Europe it appears to be represented 

 only by a specimen in the museum at Vienna, and further information is 

 required as to its affinities. Judging from the description, it seems to be 

 a brocket rather than a pudu ; the tail being more developed than in the 

 latter, and the tarsal gland also present. The white under surface of the 

 tail, and the white on the lips are also characters of the brockets, among 

 which group the species is placed by Dr. von Ihering. 



Distribution. — Central Brazil, in the neighbourhood of Mato-Grosso, 

 where the species is known as noambibororoca, or veado pequeno. It lives 

 more generally on the borders of the campos than in the forests. 



Incert^e Sedis 

 I. Mazama inornata 



Homelaphus inornatus, Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 90 (1872). 



Coassus inornatus, Gray, Hand-list Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 162 (1873). 



Named on the evidence of an immature stuffed male in the British Museum, 

 measuring rather over 24 inches in height. Gray's description is as follows : — " It is 

 of a pale brown colour, more dusky on the head, back of the neck, shoulders, and 

 outside of the legs ; a distinct yellowish streak over the upper edge of the orbit ; the 

 inside of the upper part and the front edge of the thighs and the under side of the 

 tail white. It has no appearance of natural metatarsal glands. The ears are moderate 

 and nakedish. The nose and middle of the chin are dark blackish, with a large triangular 

 spot on the front of the upper lip, 1 and a narrow white cross-band immediately under 

 the front of the lower lip." The antlers are represented by small knobs. 



2. Mazama aurita 



Coassus auritus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 242, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 

 2, vol. ix. p. 432 (1852), Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 239 (1852), Cat. Ruminants 

 Brit. Mus. p. 92 (1872). 



1 In the original misprinted leg. 



