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market. In one of his letters, dated 19th May, 1846, 
I find the following note. ‘‘ Mr. Russell, barrister at 
Law, informs me that Mr. Townshend, a bordering 
proprietor on the uplands in which the Guazu-pita 
were turned out to establish themselves, has the 
antlers of the Deer killed some five years ago. Mr. 
Townshend himself ran down this buck with his 
dogs, having started it in a morning’s stroll through 
his woodlands. The last batch of Deer were intro- 
duced thirty years ago by a Colonel Harrison at the 
Farm. Mr. Russell recollects as many as eight 
quarters of venison in the market at one time. There 
seems every reason to conclude that a colony still in- 
habits the impervious mountain-forests above the 
Caymanas Plain.” 
A few days after the above was written, Mr. Hill 
favoured me with the following note on the subject. 
bill June, 1846. When your letter came to hand, 
announcing your arrangements for an immediate 
departure for Europe, knowing how important it was 
that you should early complete your notes of the 
Mammalian Vertehrata, I walked as far as Mr. 
Townshend’s pen, and made the accompanying 
sketches of the Horn of the Guazu-pita Deer. I 
learnt from him a number of interesting particulars 
respecting the existence of these animals in the ad- 
joining woodlands. I find that their number, if not 
considerable, are not a few ; — that they are frequently 
seen in herds of several together, and that fifteen 
were surprised in the forest not more than two years 
ago, at which time a negro labourer of Waterloo pen, 
close by, a property of the Townshend family, brought 
