General Notes. 187 



ON A SPECIMEN OF OVIS CALIFORNIANA DOUGLAS IX THE 



NATIONAL MUSEUM.* 



Recent writers on American wild sheep (Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Ili>t.. XXXI, p. 22; Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., X, p. 150), in 

 remarks on Ovis californiana Douglas, state thai this species is unrepre- 

 sented by typical specimens in museums, and is now probably extinct at 

 the type locality. It may be of interest to note that the United States 

 National Museum fortunately possesses a good skull with a complete skin 

 of a four year old ram, which, though not from the exact type locality 

 (near Mount Adams. Yakima County, Washington), is, nevertheless, 

 from a locality in the Cascades near enough to answer all practical pur- 

 poses as typical material. The specimen was collected on the north fork 

 of the Methow River, Washington, in 1899, and was presented to the 

 museum by Theodore Lyman, of Harvard University. Professor Lyman 

 tells me that sheep still exist in small numbers in the vicinity where this 

 specimen was collected. The skin is in the faded summer coat, and does 

 not differ, except in smaller size, from skins in similar condition from 

 the Rocky Mountains. The skull indicates a valid species, somewhat 

 smaller than canadensis, and with horns resembling the horns of Ovis 

 slom i more than those of canadensis. The horns are much lighter than 

 in canadensis, and are about the size and general shape of horns of typi- 

 cal stonei, though less spreading; and exhibit the triangular cross section 

 and flat front in a marked degree. The condylobasal length of the skull 

 is 279 millimeters; the length of upper tooth row, crowns, Si'. The teeth 

 are, as compared with canadensis, relatively larger. 



— N. Hollister. 



TWO PREOCCUPIED NAMES. 



Mr. Fred. Muir of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station 

 has called my attention to the following: 

 Zacau.es gen. nov. Pisces. Jordan and Snyder. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



25, 190:;, p. 44S. 

 X \< ai.i.ks gen. nov. Ichneumonidse Insectorum Foerster, Verh. ver. 



Reinl., Bonn., 25, 1869, p. 204. 



The fish genus may he known as Calliblennius. 



In 1001 Samuel Garman proposed Woodworthia for a new genus of 

 Gekkonidse from New Zealand. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 39, 1001, p. 4, 

 pi. 1, fig. 2-2x. This name has precedence over Woodirorthia for a new 

 genus in the group of the Polyclad Turbellaria proposed by Laidlaw in 

 L904. Ceylon Pearl Fisheries Rep. 2, L904; Supl. Rep. «.), p. 128, pi. — ., 

 fig. 1 and 0. 



The genus of worms may he known as Idioplanoides from its close 

 relationship to the genus Idioplana. — T. Barbour. 



* Published here by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



