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reduced coloured tips ; on the neck the tips paler and longer, the black 

 being much reduced, which gives a tawny appearance ; towards the head 

 the black again increases, till the shorter hairs of the ears, face, and chin 

 are almost black. Ears thickly haired inside and out, the hairs on the inside 

 being broadly tipped with white. Feet black, most of the hairs being 

 minutely tipped with buff ; inner sides of the legs and the abdomen 

 clothed with long yellowish hair of a finer and more ordinary character. 

 Ears very short and partially concealed by the rough hair. Naked 

 portion of the muzzle from the nostrils downwards deep. Tail entirely 

 wanting. When full grown, the animal would probably be about 14 or 

 1 5 inches high at the shoulder, and thus taller than the Chilian species. 



The distinctive features of this species are the absence of the tail, the 

 blackish-brown ground-colour sprinkled with bright rufous, and the nearly 

 black face and legs. The ears, too, are relatively short, with long fur, 

 especially internally, where they are white. In the skull the premaxilla? 

 ascend to reach the nasal bones, whereas in P. pudu the two are separated 

 by a short interval. 



Distribution. — Paramo of Papallacta, Ecuador, where it appears to be 

 very scarce. 



B. The Aberrant Deer — Sub-Family Moschin^ 



Characters, — Distinguished from the Cervince by the following structural 

 features. The liver is provided with a gall-bladder, as in many hollow- 

 horned ruminants. In the skull the canal situated just within the margin 

 of the eye and leading into the chamber of the nose opens by a single 

 aperture, instead of two orifices, as in the true deer. There is no face- 

 gland or gland-pit below the eye. The hemispheres of the brain are 

 comparatively smooth, having few convolutions. There are also differences 

 in certain internal organs of the female. Antlers wanting in both sexes. 



This sub-family contains only the musks, or musk-deer, of which there 

 appear to be two species. 



That the musks are widely different from the typical Cervidce, must be 

 freely admitted ; and were it not that the multiplication of groups is to be 

 deprecated, there is much to be said in favour of referring them to a family 

 apart {MoschiJa). They were excluded from the Cervidce by Fitzinger, 



