186 General Notes. 



Allen's attention to this fact, he has suggested that I rename his race, 

 and I therefore propose for it the name Oreamnos americanus columbise. 

 The Rocky Mountain Goats, with the exception of Oreamnos kennedeyi 

 Elliot, will stand then as follows: 



Oreamnos americanus americanus (Blainville). 



L815. Ovis montanus Ord, Guthrie's geogr., 2d Amer. ed., II, p. 292 ( not 

 Oris montana Schreber 1S04; not Ovis montana Tiedemann 

 1808). 



islti. R[upicapra] americana Blainville, Bull. sci. soc. philom. Paris, 

 p. 80. (North America. ) 



1S17. Mazama dorsata Rafinesque, Amer. monthly mag., II, p. 44 ( new 

 name for Ovis montanus Ord). 



1 s 1 7 . Mazama sericea Rafinesque, Amer. monthly mag., II, p. 44 ( new- 

 name for Rupicapra americana Blainville). 



1822. Antilope lanigera Smith, Trans. Linn, soc., XIII, p. 3S (new 



name for Rupicapra americana Blainville). 



1823. Capra columbiana Desmoulins, Diet, class, hist, nat., Ill, p. 580 



(new name for Ovis montanus Ord). 



Oreamnos americanus missoulae Allen. 



1904. Oreamnos montanus missouhr Allen, Bull. Amer. mus. nat. liist., 

 XX, p. 20. (Missoula, .Montana.) 



Oreamnos americanus columbiae new name. 



1904. Oreamnos montanus coiumbianus Allen, Bull. Amer. mus. nat. 

 hist., XX, p. 20 (Shesley Mountains, northern British Colum- 

 bia; not Capra columbiana Des.moi.ixs 182.°)). 



As we must date Oris montana from Schreber 1804, instead of from 

 Cuvier 1817, the name requires consideration, with canadensis and cervina, 

 in the next contribution to the nomenclature of the Rocky Mountain 

 Sheep. — -V. Hollister. 



THE TYPE LOCALITY OF PROECHIMYS STEEREI GOLDMAN. 



When the original description of Proechimys steerei Goldman was pub- 

 lished* the type locality was given as " Rio Purus, a southern tributary 

 of the Amazon, in northwestern Brazil," this being at that time the only 

 data available in regard to the specimens on which the species is based. 

 A letter from Dr. J. B. Steere, the collector, bearing date of January 8, 

 1912, contains the additional information that the specimens all came 

 from Hyutanahan, a small village of rubber gatherers, on the north side 

 of the Rio Purus, in the upper part of its course. The species seemed to 



be abundant. —E. A. Goldman. 



* Proc. I'.iol. Soc. Wash., XXIV, pp. 238-239, Nov. 28, 1911. 



