174 Palmer — Nomenclature of T)'oj)lcal American Mammals. 



but the name was not published in Lathi form until 1827, when 

 it appeared in Lesson's ' Manuel de Mamnialogie,' p. 309. As 

 early as 1803, Blumenbach named tlie same species 2\du novem- 

 cinda,^ and in 1809 figured it under the same designation in his 

 'Abl)ildungen Naturhistorischer Gegenstiinde,' No. 83. Tatu, 

 having at least 24 years priority, should therefore replace Taiusia. 



The peccaries are almost universally placed in the genus Dico- 

 tijles erected by Cuvier in 1817, but in 1814 Fischer proposed 

 T(ujassu,f a modified form of the native name, for the same 

 group. Fischer recognized two species, Ta.yassu pecari, based 

 on Sas tajacu of Linnoeus, and Taijassu patlrn. He gave full ge- 

 neric and specific descriptions and a list of synonyms for each 

 species. To see that Tayassu pecari and T. pntira were intended 

 as scientific and not as vernacular names, it is only necessary to 

 notice that they are used in precisely the same way as Siis sethi- 

 opicus, Tapirus americanus, and man}^ others on the pages imme- 

 diately preceding or following the descriptions of these s^^cies. 

 Dkotyles therefore becomes a synonym of Tayassu and necessi- 

 tates a change in the family from Dicotylidas to Tayassuidae. 



The kinkajou of tropical America is usually known as Cerco- 

 lejites, although it has at least 3 earlier names (Potos Cuvier and 

 GeofTroy, 1795, Kinkajou Lacepede, 1801, and Caudivolvulus Du- 

 meril, 1806), which were given as synonyms of Cercoleptes by 

 Illiger when he redescribed the genus in 1811. All of these 

 genera were based on tlie same species, and Potos X should be 

 adopted as the earliest available name. 



Kaups genus Chrysothrix, described in 1835 for the small 

 sqnirrel monkeys, is also antedated by the native name Saimiri, 

 Avhich was used as a subgenus by Voigt in 1831. § Voigt pub- 

 lished the species as Simia (Saimiri) sciurea, and his Saimiri 

 should have preference over the later Chrysothrix. 



*Handbach der Naturgeschichte, 7te Auflage, 1803, 105-106; lOte Aus- 

 gabe, 1821, 111. The first edition of this work appeared in 1779, and the 

 name may have been published much earlier than 1803, but I have not 

 been able to examine any of the first six editions. 



tZoognosia, III, 1814, pp. 284-289. 



X Methode Mammalogique in Mag. Encyclopedique, lere ann^e, II, 

 1795, p. 187. 



? Cuvier's Thierreicli, I, 1831, p. 95. 



