308 Pudus 



Cervus humi/is, Bennett, Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1831, p. 27. 



Cervus (Pudu) humi/is, Gray, Proc. Zoo/. Soc. 1850, p. 242. 



Pudu humi/is, Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mas. p. 240 (1852), Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1864, p. 105, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 93 (1872), Hand -list 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 163 (1873). 



Pudu chi/ensis, Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. plate xxxvi (1852). 



Cervus pudu, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 238. 



Nane/aphus pudu, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, vol. lxviii. part i. p. 361 

 (1873), lxxix. part i. p. 34 (1879). 



Pudu a humi/is, Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 18 ; Brooke, ibid. 1878, 

 p. 927 ; de Winton, ibid. 1896, p. 510. 



Coassus humi/is, Riitimeyer, Ahh. schweiz. pal. Gcs. vol. viii. p. 31 (1881). 



Characters. — The type species. Size very small, the height at the 

 shoulder being about 13^, inches. Tail distinct. General colour of upper- 

 parts and outer surface of limbs reddish brown, with a speckling of fawn, 

 darkest on the head, passing into grayish on the neck, on the fore-neck 

 more distinctly speckled with yellowish fawn, and on the under-parts and 

 inner surface of the limbs fawn, yellower in some parts, and redder in 

 others. Ears relatively long. In the skull the premaxillae separated by a 

 distinct interval from the nasal bones. 



Distribution. — Chilian Andes and southwards to the archipelago of 

 Chiloe, descending in winter to the plains of the southern provinces. 

 Nothing seems to be recorded with regard to the mode of life of this pretty 

 little deer, which has several times been represented by living examples in 

 the London Zoological Gardens. 



2. The Ecuador Pudu — Pudua mephistopheles 



Pudua mephistopheles, de Winton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 508, plate xix. 



Plate XXIV, fig. 1 



Characters. — Known by a single immature female, measuring about 12, 1 , 

 inches at the shoulder. Hair of the body long and coarse, its basal portion 

 peculiarly brittle and pith-like ; the terminal half of each hair black with 

 a ferruginous tip, producing a rich brown colour. Back darker than the 

 flanks, owing to the hairs having broader black bands with correspondingly 



