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THE GUAZCrPUCO-DEER. 
Mazama paludosa. — H. Smith. 
PLATE XVI. 
Eel Giiazu-pucrS, Azara, Apuntamienlos, i. p. 3.1, No. 4 
Cervus paludosus, Desm. Mammalogie, p. 443. — Guazu- 
puco-deer, Griffith's Cuv. iv. 134 — Cervus paludosus, 
Lichtenstein, Saugethiere, pi. xvii. 
This deer, with the following, seems first to have 
been noticed in the works of Azara. They were 
^ afterivards introduced in the Mammalogy of Desma- 
rest ; and we have a figure of our present species 
in Griffith's translation of Cuvier, taken from a spe- 
cimen exhibited in London. Later still (in 1829), 
it is described and figured in Lichtenstein’s Sauge- 
thiere, which has supplied the material for our illus- 
trations. It is nearly as large as the European stag. 
The muzzle is large. The general colour is a red- 
dish-hay, except the insides of the ears, the lower 
part of the breast, and inside of the limbs, which are 
white. The forehead and face is marked with a 
dark broad stripe, which runs irregularly down on 
each side of the lips, and is relieved by a paler tint 
on the eyebrows and cheeks. It inhabits the lower 
districts of Paraguay. 
