THE 
PUDU DEER. 
Cenms humilis. 
Plate XY1J1. 
Although the true Stags of the type of our Red Deer are confined to the Northern parts of both hemispheres, 
representatives of the genus Cervus are found all over Southern Asia and its islands, and throughout the 
continent of America. One of the smallest of the known species of the whole group, is the Pudu Deer of 
Chili. The height of this animal does not exceed a foot and a half between the shoulders, and offers a marked 
contrast to that of its gigantic congener, the Wapiti, of which a portrait has been already given in the first 
volume of these “ Sketches.” 
The Pudu, although believed to have been indicated long ago by Molina in his history of Chili, is still 
imperfectly known in Europe. The individual of this species, which lived for some months in the Society’s 
Gardens in 1830, and upon which Mr. Bennett founded his Cervus humilis, was a female, and the same was the 
case with an example obtained at Concepcion by Captain King. Mr. Wolf’s drawing was taken from an 
individual living in the Society s Gaidens in 1854, which was likewise a female, and it has been doubted 
whether the male of this species ever bears horns or not. These doubts, however, have been lately set at rest 
by the acquisition by the Zoological Society in I860 of a male example of this little Deer, presented to the 
collection by Mr. Charles Bath, of Ffynone, Swansea, This specimen, as will bo seen by the acompanying 
woodcut, bears on its head a pair of small straight horns without any branches, measuring about two inches in 
length. 
