Citations:guazuti

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English citations of guazuti

  • 1835, Sir William Jardine, The Natural History of the Ruminating Animals, ...: Deer, antelopes, camels, &c, page 174:
    THE GUAZUTI-DEER. Mazama campestris Smith. PLATE XVII.
  • 1838, Félix de Azara (original author), William Perceval Hunter (translated), The Natural History of the Quadrupeds of Paraguay and the River La Plata; Translated [] by W. Perceval Hunter; in Two Volumes, page 138:
    The horns he gives it as well as the quality of the hair, are similar to those of the guazuti; and he errs in stating the ete, which I have already said is a Guazupucu, to be destitute of horns. Buffon had some horns engraved for his thirty-seventh plate, figures one and two, which [...] do not in the least resemble the guazuti, which I believe to be the deer of Brazil and the Para of Pison. Lastly, Buffon [...] concludes by affirming that the guazuti is a mere variety of the European fallow-deer; a most erroneous statement [...]
  • 1851, Philip Henry Gosse, Richard HILL (of Spanish Town, Jamaica.), A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica. By P. H. G. assisted by R. Hill, page 438:
    [...] impression so much of speed as of strength and endurance. When I examined these Guazuti, my mind quite misgave me about the history of the feral Deer of our near-by mountains. The spotless coat did not influence me in this uncertainty, [...]