Pudus 307 



Cervus {Subulo) auritus, Wagner, Schreber's S'dugethiere, vol. v. p. 336 (1855). 



Subulo auritus, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxviii. part i. p. 360 (1873), lxxix. 

 part i. p. 19 (1879). 



Founded on a skin reported to be from Brazil, but now lost ; not improbably the 

 female of M. rufa. 



XIII. The Pudus — Genus Pudua 



Pudu, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 242, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mas. 

 p. 92 (1872). 



Nane/aphus, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wicn, vol. lxviii. part i. p. 360 (1873), 

 lxxix. part i. p. 31 (1879), in part. 



Pudua, Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 18; Brooke, ibid. 1878, 

 p. 296 ; de Winton, ibid. 1896, p. 508. 



Characters. — Skull and metacarpals generally as in Mazama. Size very 

 small ; hair coarse and brittle ; antlers in the form of short, simple spikes ; 

 cannon-bones very short ; tail very short or wanting ; no whorls in the 

 hair of the face, which is directed regularly backwards from the muzzle to 

 the crown ; ears large and rounded ; face -gland moderately large and 

 exposed, and the gland-pit very deep and oval ; naked portion of muzzle 

 below nostrils deep ; tarsal and metatarsal glands and tufts absent ; upper 

 canines wanting, and the middle pair of lower incisors not greatly expanded ; 

 in the ankle-joint (tarsus) the external cuneiform united with the naviculo- 

 cuboid bone. 



In the characters of the skull and several other features the pudus are 

 very closely connected with the guemals and brockets, from the latter of 

 which they are distinguished by the uniformly upward direction of the hair 

 of the face. This, however, is only a character of sub-generic importance 

 (according to the scheme of classification here employed) ; and the justifica- 

 tion for ranking the group as a separate genus rests upon the peculiar 

 structure of the ankle-joint, which is quite different from that of all the 

 other American deer. 



Distribution. — -Western side of the Neotropical region. 



1. The Chilian Pudu — Pudua pudu 



Capra pudu, Molina, Saggio Storia Nat. Chili, p. 310 (1782). 

 Ovis pudu, Kerr, Animal Kingdom, p. 35 (1792). 



