VOL. XIV, pp. 183-185 DECEMBER 12, 1901 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



NOTE ON THE NAMES OF A FEW SOUTH 

 AMERICAN MAMMALS. 



BY J. A. ALLEN. 



A recent examination of G. Fischer's 'Zoognosia' (Vol. Ill, 

 1814), shows that a number of the names currently attributed to 

 later authors originated with Fischer; also that a few of Fisch 

 er's names for South American mammals antedate those of Wied 

 and Schinz.' Among the former may be mentioned Fells eyra, 

 Nasua rufa, and Nasua fusca, usually attributed to Desmarest, 

 1820, but all date from Fischer 1814; also Dasypus villosus, 

 attributed to Desmarest 1819, dates from Fischer 1814. Nasua 

 socialis Wied, 1826, is antedated by Nasua sociabilis Schinz, 



1821. 



Dasypus cilliatus Fischer, 1814, antedates Dasypus pat a gon- 

 icus Demarest 1819. This species will consequently stand as 

 Zaedyus cilliatus (G. Fischer). 



A comparison of Schinz's 'Thierreich', 1821, with Wied's 

 4 Reise nach Brasilien', 1822, and Wied's Beitrage zur Natur- 

 geschicte von Brasilien' (II, 1826) shows that Schinz was the 

 first to publish a number of the names attributed by him to 

 Wied, and since thus generally accredited. Apparently not 

 only Schinz, Kuhl, and Temminck had access to Wied's col 

 lections but in many cases adopted and published his manu 

 script names several years before Wied published them himself, 

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